How I started it all

I'm the king of Ithaca.The Trojan war was my idea.I told the former suitors of Helen to defend the marriage rights of Menelaus(he married Helen) .So when Paris stole Helen we had to go to war.I tried to get out of it by pretending to be mad(I sowed salt instead of grain with a plough with a goat an ox pulling).So Palamedes put Telemachus in front of the plough and I stopped, so that proved I wasn't mad.