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.