Why wasn't the trojan war over after menelaus seemed to have defeated paris?

too many reasons:

- menelaus did not kill paris, so it wasn't really a victory or a defeat;

- even so, he did not get helen back;

- getting helen back was only a pretext to destroy the city; even if menelaus would have killed paris AND got his wife back, they would have still stood there until the walls were broken.

Why wasn't the trojan war over after menelaus seemed to have defeated paris?free antivirus download

Because the gods were involved and egging stuff on.

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Okay, think of it this way: If Osama Bin Laden had taken out President Bush too, do you think we would have laid down and given up, or would we have been even more ticked? Same thing with Troy. Paris was the ruler of the people and everyone loved him. They would not have just given up once he was dead. If anything, they were even more geared to fight and if the Athenians had not come up with the horse idea, that war may have never ended.