The gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus are enjoying themselves at a party when, suddenly, an apple addressed “to the most beautiful” appears in their midst. The ensuing fight for the apple between Juno, Minerva, and Venus soon spills over to earth and pulls Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Hector, and Achilles into ten years of war between Greece and Troy.Bellum Troianum joins other novellas in Andrew Olimpi's Comprehensible Classics series in using a limited vocabulary to tell an exciting story that is accessible to novice and intermediate readers of Latin.This is also the first volume in the Fabulae Epicae (Epic Stories) series. Books in this series are designed to help beginners learn Latin by reading engaging stories from Greek and Roman mythology. All books have been tested in a classroom setting with beginning Latin students and contain a limited vocabulary. Meanings for many words are provided in footnotes and a full index of all words, word forms, and phrases is included at the back of each book. Readers can thus use this book on their own or with others.Total Words: 5500Unique Words: 270 Base Vocabulary: 151 Level: Latin II (Grammar and Translation Classes) Level: Latin II/III (Communicative Classes)