Iliad

Script: Scenes 3 and 4 WAR
(Is War, Greeks against Trojans, Paris decided to help its people, the he saw Menelaus going for him, and Paris runs away from him and Hector stops him by taking his left arm)

Hector: ¡Paris! ¡Great Casanova, with a perfect beauty, but with cowardice disgusting for the gods, even for Aphrodite. Now, go and confront the consequences of the actions you made!

(Parislooks down)

Paris: ¡Oh Hector! The best warrior of all Troy, I know I deserve all those words you recently said, but please do not judge me like that. If you want me to fight with the Atreidai Menelaus, I do. The winner takes Helen and the reward.

(Hector feels proud of his brother, and he makes what Paris told him. He goes to the center of the battlefield and rises up his spear and theAtreidai Agamemnon stars to scream.)

Agamemnon: ¡Stop everyone, the great Hector of Troy has an important message!

(Hector Starts To Speak.)

Hector: ¡Listen Trojans and Greeks, throw your weapons. The great Menelaus and Paris will fight and the winner takes Helen and the reward.

(Everything is in silence, Menelaus, the Atreidai, takes advantage and starts to speak)

Menelaus: ¡Now hearme please, I have a pain in my heart, like a sword crossing my heart. The moment has arrived, go and call Priam, we need an honourable witness for this fight.

(Everybody enjoys those words pronounced by the Atreidai, Hector sends two messengers to bring Priam to the Battlefield. Meanwhile, Iris, a messenger goes to Helen’s room)

(On Helen’s room)

Isis: Come with me, Oh beautiful woman, tosee a battle between the Atreidai and your current husband.

(Helen, crying, goes quickly to the battlefield to see the fight against them; Priam sees her and asks her to join him)

Priam: Come with me, dear daughter, sit with me and you will see your previous husband, with his relatives.

(Priam dries her tears of her face, the Helen stars to speak with Priam)

Helen: My dear father, Iwould like to die coming to Troy, but now all what I can do is cry.

(Priam screams to all the people present)

Priam: ¡Listen to me Oh Greeks and Trojans, I will be back to the sacred Troy, my eyes cannot be able to see the fight between my son and Menelaus.

(Priam goes to Troy, meanwhile Hector and Ulysses prepare the battlefield, then, they decide to put two sand balls, one representsParis and the other the Atreidai, they shake the balls with a bronze helmet, so it decides who is going to start with the fight, for other side, the men were praying to Zeus. Paris is the one that starts the fight. Menelaus Prays)

Menelaus: ¡ Oh great Zeus, lord of the rays Let me punish Paris, the one that makes me feel pain.

(Menelaus throws the spear to Paris; the spear gets trough theshield of the prince and rips the tunic on the left leg, avoiding the Death, Then, the Atreidai takes his sword and with a huge strong, hits his enemy’s helmet, but his sword jumps in pieces, the he stars to speak)

Menelaus: ¡Oh great son of Cronos, there is no crueler god than you; I was hoping to have my revenge right now!

(While he was saying that, he was dragging Paris by the bronze helmetall over the battlefield, Paris hurts his face, Aphrodite rescues him by taking him to a room, then she brings Helen to him.)

Aphrodite: Come here, oh Helen, beautiful of all the women, Paris calls you to go back to home, but he is not fighting, he is waiting for you.

(Helen saw with fear the goddess)

Helen: ¡Oh my dear Goddess, why do you want to betray me? Where do you want me totransport? Now Menelaus wants me back.

(Angry the goddess answers)

Aphrodite: Do not irritate me, fool human, do not make me put my wrath on you.

(After listen the words of the goddess, Helen runs behind the goddess, after a while, they are on Paris’ castle, Aphrodite puts a chair near Paris, in that chair, and Helen sits and starts a conversation with his husband)

Helen: ¡Oh my dear...