![]() ![]() ![]() On the Greek side, the story of the Iliad begins with the wedding of Peleus, a mortal, and Thetis, a goddess. Therefore, for the sake of the city, Hekuba agreed to abandon her newborn infant to die by exposure on Mount Ida, but Paris was saved by shepherds and grew up as a shepherd, ignorant of his royal birth. An oracle and a seer confirmed that this son would indeed be the cause of the total destruction of the noble city of Troy. When Hekuba was pregnant with Paris, she had a dream that Paris would be the cause of the destruction of Troy. Deiphobus is also one of the children of Priam and Hekuba. According to legend, Priam and Hekuba had forty-nine children, including the warrior Hektor, the prophetess Cassandra, and the young lover, Paris (also known as Alexandros). Consequently, Troy was without divine protection and, in fact, Poseidon became its enemy.Īt the time of the Trojan war, Troy was ruled by King Priam, who was married to Hekuba. However, after the wall was constructed, Poseidon demanded his just compensation, but the Trojans reneged. The Trojans enlisted the aid of the sea god, Poseidon, to help build the wall. ![]() The story of the Iliad has its actual beginning in the creation of the great wall at Troy. ![]() The ancient Greek audience, however, would have been familiar with all the events leading up to this tenth year, and during the course of the Iliad, Homer makes many references to various past events. The Iliad deals with only a small portion of the Trojan War in fact, it covers only a few months during the tenth year of that war. ![]()
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