1. …to every story  The Troy princes, along with other Troy soldiers, go to Menelaus’s house to sign a peace treaty  Seeking to finally end feud  Paris sees Helen, hits on her, Helen welcomes his advances  Helen leaves her home with Paris and goes back to Troy with him in the night

2. Little Brother in Trouble

3. Choices In Troy…  King Priam, Paris and Hector’s dad, has a choice to make: 1.Throw out his son to save his city? 2.Protect his son and ruin the city?

4. Meanwhile, in Greece…  King Agamemnon has been looking for a reason to fight Troy (He never wanted the peace treaty – just went along with it)  King Agamemnon does NOT care about Helen or Menelaus  When he heard about Helen leaving, treated it like a kidnapping…

5. 1,000 Ships  King Agamemnon launches 1,000 ships from Greece to head towards Troy  Collects men from all over Greece  Empties out Greece of all its 20-year-old men  Helen = the face that launched 1,000 ships

6. On The Ships…  Greek war lords (some call themselves kings), none are royal  Comic book heroes; back stories for how they all came to be  Odysseus, Ajax, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Achilles, just to name a few…

7. Achilles Backstory  Mom is immortal, but Achilles is not  Worried for him, she took him to The River Styx when he was a baby  River Styx = River between the land of the living and the land of the dead  Mom dips him in the river upside down, holding him by the feet  She does not dip him past his ankles  Makes him immortal…