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To: nickcarraway

Someone does not know his history.

“which he took to be the treasure trove belonging to King Priam, the husband of the famed Helen of Troy, whose capture, or tryst—depending on whom you believe—started the Trojan War.”

Priam was not married to Helen of Troy. His son Paris spirited her away from her husband, King Menelaus, of Sparta.
Priam was married to Hecuba.


3 posted on 09/21/2023 12:56:42 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner

He didn’t just spirit her away, Aphrodite promised her to Paris. It was an oral contract, and Paris fulfilled his part of the contract.


4 posted on 09/21/2023 1:03:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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