Who actually took the Troy down??

In Greek mythology, ‘Achilles’ or ‘Achilleus’ was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and is the central character of Homer’s Iliad. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, king of Phthia. Achilles’ most notable feat during the Trojan War was the slaying of the Trojan prince Hector outside the gates of Troy. The tomb of Achilles, extant throughout antiquity in Troad, was venerated by Thessalians, but also by Persian expeditionary forces, as well as by Alexander the Great and the Roman emperor Caracalla.

‘Odysseus’ was a legendary hero in Greek mythology, king of the island of Ithaca and the main protagonist of Homer’s epic, the “Odyssey.” The son of Laertes and Anticlea, Odysseus was well known among the Greeks as a most eloquent speaker, an ingenious and cunning trickster.

‘Helen of Troy’, Helen, Helena, also known as beautiful Helen, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda. She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta.

‘Paris’ also known as Alexander the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Of these appearances, probably the best known was the elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War.

In Greek mythology’s four critical characters, much like ‘Mahabharata’, there is an attempt to squander women’s will, which sparks off a great war, eventually taking down ‘Troy’ to ashes. The legend said the walls of the Priam’s Troy were unbreachable. But with a small but interesting tactic by Odysseus of presenting his opponent (troy) with a parting peace offering in the form of a giant wooden horse, played a role of a dynamite in bringing the mountainous ‘Troy’ down.

But there is always something more to what meets the eye, much before ‘trojan horse’ breaching Troy, a beautiful and worthy distraction had already breached walls of Troy, in the form of ‘Helen of Sparta’ aka ‘Helen of Troy’. The breach was so successful or clinical, that it only left her lover i.e. ‘Paris’ alive, only heir to the throne, but more exile’ish. Rest all worthy successors to Priam were killed and his idea of Troy was desecrated for ages.

Time and again we have failed to recognise the role of women in our society, it only points in one direction of it being an all men’s / boy’s club of decision making, right from history to the present moment.