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Still bitter that Paris had spurned her for his birthright in the city and then forgotten her for Helen, Oenone refuses. Helen returns alone to Troy, where Paris dies later the same day. In another version, Paris himself, in great pain, visits Oenone to plead for healing but is refused and dies on the mountainside. When Oenone hears of his ...
The Greeks' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War. According to some stories, Helen of Troy was kidnapped by Paris and group of Trojans; in others, she simply followed Paris willingly because she felt affection for him, too.
[157] [165] Menelaus killed Deiphobus, Helen's husband after Paris' death, and also intended to kill Helen, but, overcome by her beauty, threw down his sword [166] and took her to the ships. [157] [167] Menelaus captures Helen in Troy, Ajax the Lesser drags Cassandra from Palladium before the eyes of Priam (fresco from the Casa del Menandro ...
In Homer, Helen herself says she followed Paris, [52] or that she was led to Troy by Aphrodite. [53] Herodotus, who says Paris "carried off" (ἁρπάσαντος) Helen ([54] says Paris "got her to fly" with him. [55] The Cypria simply mentions that after giving Helen gifts, "Aphrodite brings the Spartan queen together with the Prince of Troy."
Thymoites tells Troy if they are to stay in the city, they will die, therefore everyone should leave. Priam and Paris say that fighting is the answer and Memnon, son of Dawn, and the Ethiopian army will be here soon. Polydamas says that Ethiopians will lose. Zeus thinks that tomorrow's battle will be ugly and full of death.
The mosaic is normally housed in Paris at the Louvre (Ma 3443), although it has been known to go on tour. [1] In 2007 it was scheduled to feature in an itinerant exhibition of important pieces that the Louvre organised in the United States. [2] The mosaic depicts the Judgement of Paris, one in a series of incidents which led to the Trojan War.
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One modern account, The Luck of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green, depicts him as a particularly unpleasant character. In the Xena: Warrior Princess episode "Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts," Deiphobus is the primary villain, portrayed as betraying Troy and murdering Paris in order to win Helen for himself.