The Iliad: Book III: 398-end

1. Paris. Paris hurled-- his spear's long shadow flew and the shaft hit Menelaus' round shield.
2. Menelaus because Paris's spear breaks and he dragged Paris by his helment. Paris hurled-- his spear's long shadow flew and the shaft hit Menelaus' round shield, full center-- not pounding through, the brazen point bent back in the tough armor. Menelaus grabbed his horsehair crest, swung him round, started to drag him into Argive lines.
3. Aphrodite helped Paris get away from Menelaus because she snapped his helment strap and she took Paris from the battle. Aphrodite, Zeus's daughter quick to the mark, snapped the rawhide stap, cut from a bludgeoned ox, and the helment came off empty in Menelaus' fist. Aphrodite snatched Paris away, easy work for a god, wrapped him in swirls of mist and set him down in his bedroom filled with scent.
4. Helen thinks it would be wrong and disgraceful to go see Paris, and she also says that the women of Troy would scorn her. Not I, I'll never go back again. It would be wrong and disgraceful to share that coward's bed once more. The women of Troy would scorn me down the years.
5. Agamemnon tells the Trojans to surrender Helen. He feels justified to do this because Menelaus beat Paris in their battle. You must surrender Helen and all her treasures with her. At once--and pay us reparations fair and fitting, a price to inspire generations still to come.