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Paris (Ancient Greek: Πάρις, romanized: Páris), also known as Alexander (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros), is a mythological figure in the story of the Trojan War. He appears in numerous Greek legends and works of Ancient Greek literature such as the Iliad .
In a famous representation by the Athenian vase painter Makron, Helen follows Paris like a bride following a bridegroom, her wrist grasped by Paris' hand. [89] The Etruscans, who had a sophisticated knowledge of Greek mythology, demonstrated a particular interest in the theme of the delivery of Helen's egg, which is depicted in relief mirrors. [90]
This was Helen of Sparta, wife of the Greek king Menelaus. Paris accepted Aphrodite's bribe and awarded the apple to her, receiving Helen as well as the enmity of the Greeks and especially of Hera. The Greeks' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War.
Oenone holding pan pipes, behind Paris and Eros – a detail from a sarcophagus with the Judgement of Paris, Roman, Hadrianic period (Palazzo Altemps, Rome). In Greek mythology, Oenone (/ ɪ ˈ n oʊ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Οἰνώνη Oinōnē; "wine woman") was the first wife of Paris of Troy, whom he abandoned for Helen.
In Greek antiquity, Hermione (/ h ɜːr ˈ m aɪ. ə n i /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἑρμιόνη [hermi.ónɛː]) was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. [2] Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, [3] to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon.
It depicts a scene from the poem the Iliad by the Ancient Greek writer Homer. [2] Following her lover Paris's defeat in the Trojan Wars at the hands of her husband Menelaus, King of Sparta, Helen is reconciled with him thanks to the intervention of Aphrodite. It was displayed at the Royal Academy's 1805 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House.
Helen (Ἑλένη) the wife of Menelaus, the King of Sparta. Paris visits Menelaus in Sparta. With the assistance of Aphrodite, Paris and Helen fall in love and elope back to Troy, but in Sparta her elopement is considered an abduction. Idomeneus (Ιδομενέας), King of Crete and Achaean commander. Leads a charge against the Trojans in ...
In Greek mythology, Polyxo (/ p ə ˈ l ɪ k s oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Πολυξώ, romanized: Poluxṓ), also known as Philozoe (Ancient Greek: Φιλοζώη, romanized: Philozṓē, lit. 'animal-loving' or 'life-loving'), is the wife of the Trojan War hero Tlepolemus, and later the queen of Rhodes, an island in the southeastern Aegean sea.