- Priam: Arise, Paris. And go.
- High Priest: The virgin Cassandra does make one point that causes me much concern. Prince Paris, it appears, gives all his worship to one goddess alone, Aphrodite.
- Paris: I'm not sure I worship anything. Now, admiration is the better word. Admiration for the beauty of a marble image.
- Agamemnon: We cannot plan without Achilles of Thessaly. But, he hates my brother and me so much, I doubt...
- Ulysses: He hates you almost as much as he loves war. In fact, in order to lock himself from all temptation of joining with us, he hid himself securely - in a house of women.
- [laughs]
- Ulysses: That's where I found him! Hiding from all persuasion - dressed as a woman.
- Menelaus: Did you persuade him?
- Ulysses: Oh yes, he's here, at the stables, seeing to the care of his horses.
- Agamemnon: Achilles! A blushing girl!
- Menelaus: I shall commend him for the beauty of his face and figure.
- Cassandra: The Goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, come down to earth in mortal form. She will bring the disaster I have prophesied. Her name will be written in letters of fire: Helen. Helen of Troy.
- Narrator: The Greeks did prepare for years of siege. They unloaded provisions from their ships. As time went on, they looted and raped the small, surrounding villages.
- Achilles: Take your hands off her!
- Ulysses: What's this? A warrior commanding his commander?
- Achilles: She's mine, Agamemnon!
- Agamemnon: Great as you are, I'm still your Chieftain. Protector of all the spoils of war. Take her to my quarters.
- Achilles: Agamemnon, if you take this girl, I shall stay home.
- Agamemnon: Then, fly, mighty warrior, fly!
- Paris: Helen, how perfect.
- Helen: The girl you fell in love with? Always keep that image with you, Paris.
- Paris: I shan't need to. I have the source of its magic. Right here I hold its living warmth and its spirit is always with me on the ramparts.
- Helen: Then it can't be lost, can it? What has been lived and shared is never lost.
- Paris: Never, Helen.
- Helen: People in love should not be blind. They should look to the future and prepare for separation.