Book 3 of 24
Book 3: Paris and Menelaus
Paris offers to settle the war in single combat with Menelaus, whose wife, Helen, he took. Both sides swear a truce, and Helen points out the Greek leaders to old King Priam from the city wall. Menelaus is winning when Aphrodite carries Paris off to safety, and Agamemnon declares the victory to be the Greeks'.