Then the tenth year started , which decided everything. Agamemnon kidnapped Chryseis, the daughter of a Trojan priest of Apollo. The priest begged then to the God, who sent a plague to the Greek camp. When the Greeks asked to their seer Calchas, he advised them to bring back the girl. Agamemnon did not really agree with this and went on a fight with Achilles. To prove him who was more powerful, he liberated Chryseis and took Achilles lover instead.

Achilles reaction was to go on a fight and killing strike, supported by his best friend Patroklos, who also stopped fighting. With the time, things started to get worse for the Greeks and many heroes were loosing their lives, so Patroklos decided to take up back the weapons but ended up being killed by Hector. This was a terrible blow for Achilles, who regret it very much for many years and interrupted the fights for some days. After this, Achilles decided to return to the fight himself and not to stop until Hector was dead and the city of Troy in flames.

The Trojan war was also a Gods battle, since the Gods stood by both sides helping each army. During the duel of Achilles and Hector, for instance, Athena blinded the Trojan hero so that Achilles could kill him. To humiliate him even after his dead, Achilles took his body and dragged it to the the pile were his friend Patrokolos was buried. Then happened something really strange and maybe the most famous scene of the Iliad. Priamos, the king of Sparta and father of Hector, went to see Achilles in his tent at the Greek camp and pleaded him to release his son to bury him in a decent way. Achilles did it.

But the battles continued and Achilles got hit by an arrow from Paris that had been guided by Apollo. Unfortunately, the arrow had hit his ankle and he died instantaneously. Even the great hero Aias went crazy with this and killed himself with his own hands. Paris, the responsible of all the war, got killed by an arrow from Philoktetes. This was a Greek soldier wounded during the war who, after living many years in pain, was called back by his army and returned having Heracles’ magic arrows with him. But Paris did not die immediately and searched for help in the mountain where he ended up dying. In summary, many dead but no step forward.

Suddenly Odysseus had an idea. He had heard the Trojan seer Helenos saying that Troy would see its end in a horse that would carry the destruction inside his stomach. And Odysseus made his own interpretation of the prophecy. He organized the army to build a huge wooden horse that they would offer to Troy as a present and sign of respect. The Trojans, too careless because of the excitement of the apparent victory, took the present without a doubt and ignoring the warnings of the seer Cassandra.

At night, when they were all sleeping, the stomach of the horse opened and some Greek soldiers came out and opened the doors of the city to let all the army inside. They butchered absolutely everybody. Nobody was left alive: not women, not children, not old people nor dogs, cats and cattle. At most, they took some beautiful women as slaves. They pillaged the town and burnt everything which was inside the walls. It was the end of the glorious Troy and its long defense against the Greek army.

Troy would be rebuilt later on. It needed time, of course, and it was never again the famous and glorious city it had been.