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A-Z: General definitions: Paris
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Son of King Priam of Troy. After awarding the golden apple to Aphrodite, he abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus, thus triggering the Trojan War; he was also a notable archer and it was his arrow that killed Achilles at Troy.
Related Topics
Golden Apple; Aphrodite; Helen; Menelaus; Achilles; Trojan War; Wooden Horse; Hecuba
The most powerful and last king of Troy.
An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
Sacred apples growing in a garden beyond the sunset, guarded by the Hesperides and Ladon the snake.
Greek goddess of love; awarded the Golden Apple of Discord as 'the fairest', by Paris; mother of Eros. (Roman name, Venus.)
Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
Son of Peleus and Thetis; he was the mainstay of the Greeks at Troy but in the tenth year of the war he was killed by Paris' arrow; the wrath of Achilles, when he withdrew from the fighting around Troy because of a quarrel with Agamemnon, is the subj
Sacred apples growing in a garden beyond the sunset, guarded by the Hesperides and Ladon the snake.
Greek goddess of love; awarded the Golden Apple of Discord as 'the fairest', by Paris; mother of Eros. (Roman name, Venus.)
Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
Son of Peleus and Thetis; he was the mainstay of the Greeks at Troy but in the tenth year of the war he was killed by Paris' arrow; the wrath of Achilles, when he withdrew from the fighting around Troy because of a quarrel with Agamemnon, is the subj
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
A supposed offering by the Greeks to Athena which they filled with armed men; it was unsuspectingly brought by the Trojans into their city, an act of folly which resulted in their downfall.
King Priam's chief wife. Mother of many children, including Hector, Paris, Helenus and Cassandra.
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