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You cannot avoid discussing history without mythology, because mythology is history turned into a tale. And that I think is something many fantasy writers forget, or at least ignore its implications.

True, but even so, he made the literally worst possible choice. If you know you're going to have two goddesses after your head, why not chose one that might, maybe, be able to help? As in, anyone except Aphrodite?

Uh, it wasn't Hera - it was that dumb love goddess. And it was a gift he chose from among the three gifts (by Hera, Athena and that third dumbgodess), so he has only himself to blame for that as well.

Wasn't it a question of honor in the Illiad? People forget that Paris not just ran off with Helen, but also stole Menelaus' treasury and most importantly broke the guest right. That last crime alone would be quite sufficient to explain a war... even if in reality it actually was merely a...

https://warfantasy.wordpress.com/2024/02/18/reasons-for-war-in-premodern-societies/ Wars do not happen without reason, even if some reasons may seem stupid to modern readers. This is important, because objective of the war also determines the conduct of the war. War whose objective is...