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At a celebration on Mount Olympus, a golden apple marked "for the most beautiful" appears without warning-setting off a bitter rivalry among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. What begins as a divine dispute soon spills into the human world, drawing Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Hector, and Achilles into the legendary ten-year war between Greece and Troy. Adapted and translated into Ancient Greek by Seumas Macdonald-one of the world's leading teachers of communicative and comprehensible Ancient Greek-this story is based on Bellum Troianum: A Latin Novella (Storybase Books, 2021) by Brian Gronewoller. Designed for novice and intermediate readers, it offers a clear and engaging introduction to the epic traditions of Homer and Vergil. Level: Elementary Mid Total Words: 5067 Word Forms: 943 Headwords: 430 Storybase Books publishes novellas to help beginners learn Latin and Greek by reading. Our novellas use limited vocabulary to tell engaging stories that are accessible to novice- and intermediate-level readers. Meanings for many words are provided in footnotes, and a full index of all words, word forms, and phrases is included in each novella. Readers can thus read each novella on their own, with others, or with a class.