GODS ON SPEED

The Greeks are struggling after besieging the City-State of Troy for ten years. Achilles, the great warrior-king, has withdrawn from battle because of a tiff with Agamemnon King of Mycenae and leader of the Greek contingent. Abruptly Achilles returns, the Greeks regroup and, following the stratagem of the wooden horse, they finally breach Troy's walls. But who or what made Achilles change his mind? And how did the war-weary Greeks think of deceiving the Trojans with a wooden horse?
Helen of Sparta is considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Her husband Menelaus is King. Her sister Clytemenestra is married to the ambitious Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and Menelaus's brother. When the Trojan Princes Hector and Paris visit Sparta on a diplomatic mission, Paris seduces Helen and she elopes with him. An enraged Menelaus turns to Agamemnon for help and the latter sees this as an opportunity to unite and lead the various Greek Kings, notably Odysseus of Ithaca, who is renowned for his cunning and Achilles of Phthia, a feared warrior. After sacrificing his young daughter Iphigenia at the port of Aulis, Agamemnon leads the Greeks in a thousand ships across the Aegean Sea to attack the Kingdom of Troy, ostensibly to recover Helen and avenge the insult to Menelaus. But Troy's walls have never been breached. King Priam and his sons, particularly Hector and Paris, are able commanders. Troy defies the Greek assault for ten long years.
Cracks develop in the Greeks' unity during the long siege. Soldiers become homesick; the Kings begin bickering. Achilles, who leads a contingent of fearsome warriors called Myrmidons, clashes with Agamemnon when the latter deprives him of his favourite slave Briseis. In a fit of rage, Achilles withdraws his troops from battle. The Greeks begin to suffer terrible losses due to Prince Hector's skills. Then they turn to Odysseus to break the impasse...