![]() The goddesses approached Paris and each offered Paris a bribe for selecting her. ![]() Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite all claimed the apple and asked Zeus to judge between them, but he wisely refused, directing the three goddesses to a shepherd on Mount Ida who could decide the loveliest. Paris took the nymph Oenone as a lover.Īt the wedding of Peleus and Thetis the gods were enjoying themselves when Eris, or Strife, threw a golden apple into their midst with the words, "For the fairest," attached. When the infant was born it was exposed on Mount Ida, but a she-bear nursed it and it survived, growing up as a shepherd called Alexander, or Paris. The seers interpreted this to mean that her unborn child would destroy Troy and its inhabitants. However, his wife, Hecuba, had a nightmare in which she gave birth to a deadly firebrand. He was not only prosperous, but he had fifty or more children, and it seemed as if good fortune would bless him and his children for a long time to come. King Priam ruled in the wealthy, fortified city of Troy.
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