"The Trojan War will not take place," Andromache said when the curtain opened on the terrace of Priam's palace. Paris no longer loves Hélène and Hélène has lost her taste for Paris, but Troy will not take her captive because for all the men of the city "there are only the footsteps of Helena, Helena's cubit, the reach of the gaze or of the voice of Hélène ... "and the omens themselves refuse to let her go.
Hector, for Troy, and Ulysses, for Greece, are trying at all costs to save the peace. But war is the business of Fatality and not of the will of men. The Trojan War will take place.