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    The document summarizes the mythological story of the Judgment of Paris and the origins of the Trojan War in 3 sentences: The goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite competed for a golden apple awarded by Prince Paris of Troy for who was the fairest, with Paris awarding it to Aphrodite after she promised him Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, sparking the Trojan War. Zeus had sent the goddesses to Paris for judgment to avoid deciding between them himself. Paris' choice of Aphrodite and the resulting abduction of Helen from her husband Menelaus was said to be the true cause of the long and famous Trojan War described

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    The document summarizes the mythological story of the Judgment of Paris and the origins of the Trojan War in 3 sentences: The goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite competed for a golden apple awarded by Prince Paris of Troy for who was the fairest, with Paris awarding it to Aphrodite after she promised him Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, sparking the Trojan War. Zeus had sent the goddesses to Paris for judgment to avoid deciding between them himself. Paris' choice of Aphrodite and the resulting abduction of Helen from her husband Menelaus was said to be the true cause of the long and famous Trojan War described

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    The Trojan War

    Prologue: The Judgment of Paris


    More than a thousand years before Christ, near
    the eastern end of the Mediterranean was a great
    city very rich and powerful, second to none on
    earth. The name of it was Troy and even today, no
    city is more famous. The cause of this long fame
    was a war told of in one of the world’s greatest
    poems, the Iliad, and the cause of the war went
    back to a dispute between jealous goddesses.
    The Judgment of Paris
    The evil goddess of discord, Eris, was naturally not popular
    in Olympus, and when the gods gave a banquet they were apt
    to leave her out. Resenting this deeply, she determined to
    make trouble – and she succeeded very well indeed. At an
    important marriage, that of King Peleus and the sea nymph
    Thetis, to which she alone of all the divinities was not invited,
    she threw into the banqueting hall a golden apple marked “For
    the Fairest”. Of course all the goddesses wanted it, but in the
    end the choice was narrowed down to three: Aphrodite, Hera
    and Athena.
    They asked Zeus to judge between them, but very wisely
    he refused to have anything to do with the matter. He told
    them to go to Mount Ida, near Troy, where the young
    prince Paris, also called Alexander, was keeping his father’s
    sheep. He was an excellent judge of beauty, Zeus told
    them. Paris, though a royal prince, was doing shepherd’s
    work because his father Priam, the King of Troy, had been
    warned that this prince would some day be the ruin of his
    country, and so had sent him away. At the moment, Paris
    was living with a lovely nymph named Oenone.
    His amazement can be imagined when there appeared before
    him the wondrous forms of the three great goddesses. He was
    not asked, however, to gaze at the radiant divinities and choose
    which of them seemed to him the fairest, but only to consider
    the bribes each offered and choose which seemed to him best
    worth taking. Nevertheless, the choice was not easy. What men
    care for most was set before him. Hera promised to make him
    Lord of Europe and Asia; Athena, that he would lead the Trojans
    to victory against the Greeks and lay Greece in ruins; Aphrodite,
    that the fairest woman in all the world should be his. Paris, a
    weakling and something of a coward, too, as later events
    showed, chose the last. He gave Aphrodite the golden apple.
    That was the Judgment of Paris, famed everywhere
    as the real reason why the Trojan War was fought.

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