The Trojan War

There was a beauty contest among the goddesses, and Paris was called to make the judgement. He chose Venus, who promised to get him a beautiful wife.

She gave him Helen, fairest of her sex, and a war was waged between her husband and his allies and Troy. The husband won, Hector was slayed by Achilles, who died by his heel, the Trojan horse was built, and Helen went back to her husband.

This is more history than myth, but they do allude to the contest between the goddesses so I guess that it's pretty even. I've always thought that the Trojan War seemed pretty interesting, but apart from seeing the movies (and reading the book) "Troy," I haven't bothered to look it up so I liked learning what the Greeks thought about it. It's funny how all ill seems to stem from the gods. They're always the ones causing trouble and messing everyone up and acting in a generably disagreeable manner, but I suppose you could say real life is the same. Though we have a wider cast of gods, all of the problems on earth seem to stem from the fact that Bush did something stupid today, or there was a catfight between Jen and Angelina, or some crazy Arab called Osam Bin Laden decided it seemed fun to bomb NYC today.