The trojan war

Apparently a true historical war that was fought for the resource of Iron that was deemed as valueable as Oil is considered today, Homer created a beautiful romantic story to create an interest over lessons that are to be learned from this war. This lesson which was still not taken into consideration when U.S. invaded Iraq, was the lesson that when you go to war, you never know how things are eventually going to turn out. The war itself was full of mistakes from the beginning, Paris refusing to take the choice of being the ruler of the world, instead choosing to have the most beautiful woman on the planet, Helen eloping with Paris being considered as an act of terrorism, neither side willing to make concessions due to the emotion called pride, war dragging on far outweighing the positive to be gained and yet it being continued, and final deception from the Greeks towards the trojans in the form of a wooden horse. Though the Illiad may have started in heavens the book ended with death. And historically both Troy and various Greek cities eventually saw their demise as a new superpower arose. Another lesson of history, you never know who is going to be the next super power on the world stage.