The narrative highlights the contrast between the haunted, unstoppable Achilles and the noble, heroic Hektor , both of whom are driven by honor and a sense of inevitable doom.
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The story unfolds through from seventeen different narrators, shifting sympathies between the Greeks and Trojans. Key Narrative Threads
Agamemnon , the ambitious King of Kings, sacrifices his own daughter to launch a fleet of a thousand ships. He is joined by the subtle and brilliant Odysseus , who eventually devises the Trojan Horse.
The war begins when the beautiful but self-indulgent Helen deserts her husband, King Menelaus of Sparta, for the equally reckless Trojan prince Paris .