Paris
Greek · mortal · heroic age · mortal
Mortal prince of Troy, second son of Priam and Hecuba; the Judgment-of-Paris choice of Aphrodite over Hera and Athena triggered the Trojan War. Homer presents him as physically beautiful and skilled with the bow, but timid in close combat — "wife-stealer, slick-haired, lover-boy" in Hector's reproach (Iliad 3.39-57). The post-Homeric tradition expanded his role: killer of Achilles via the Apollo-guided arrow, and finally killed himself by the Philoctetes-arrow in the war's final stages. Father by Oenone of Corythus (the elder); by Helen of Bunomus, Aganus, Idaeus, the Helen-fathered Corythus, and Helen the Younger — all of whom died at the fall of Troy.
Children
Domains
- archery
Powers
- Strike enemies from afar as a deadly archer
- Judge which goddess is fairest, awarding the golden apple
- Kill Achilles with a bow-shot to the heel
Epithets
- Ἀλέξανδρος
- Δύσπαρις
Relations
- sibling: Hector
- sibling: Cassandra
- sibling: Helenus
- sibling: Deiphobus
- sibling: Creusa
- sibling: Polyxena
- sibling: Troilus
- lover: Helen