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That night, while the Trojans were sleeping, the Greek ships quietly returned. The soldiers in the horse slipped out and opened the city gates, and the Greek army quietly entered Troy. They started fires all over the city. The Trojans awoke to find their city burning. When they tried to flee, they were massacred by Greek soldiers. King Priam and almost all of the other Trojan chiefs were killed. Only Aeneas - the son of Aphrodite and a Trojan royal named Anchises - escaped. The Aeneid, by the Roman writer Virgil, is about Aeneas's travels after the Trojan war. (Homer's Odyssey is about the Greek hero Odysseus's travels after the war.)
Most of the Trojan women were enslaved. Cassandra became Agamemnon's captive. He brought her back to his palace, where both were murdered by Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra in revenge for the death of her daughter Iphigenia.
Helen was more fortunate. During the sack of Troy, Odysseus found her and took her to her husband, Menelaus. He told Menelaus that Helen had helped him steal a sacred Trojan statue, the Palladium. Pleased to hear that Helen was still loyal to the Greeks, Menelaus returned with her to Sparta (it took them seven years to get home) where, it seems, they lived happily ever after.
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