gement of Par
The Jud
of the
ds held a grudge that
gods, who had b
wronged by her leaders. These go
was relaxed only Prism, who
under the shrend and swift-Footed King Priam
os som
Now
over the reins of Troy and allowed her once
more to
his
was superstitious order that a and careful monarch,
never erring
in
e wife
command of the lovely land might released. And when his wis
ca
be Hecuba dr
eamed that she had bomea firebrand youngest son was
away, left to die on the heights of Mount Ida.
This suckled by a bear
child was
Paris, but he did not die. He was
and brought to live with the herdsmen of the mountain, where he grew
strong and handsome, proud and repected by his pen He grew up
ignorant of hi
ble reeding. content to wed and ve with an exquisite
li
In tain
nymph Oenone in a humble home. He lled Alexander there,
was cal
the helper of men
And then one day, as he tended his flocks on the sunlit mountains,
surrounded by greenery, and more th
content with his
simple lot, he was
an
visited by Hermes, messenger of the gods. There had been an altercation
he said, looking with awo at the beauty
of this mortal, and three of the
been decreed by Zeus that Pris was a man of great wisdom and far looks.
and that this lowly shepherd should be given the task of judgng amongst
the goddesses.
Fear not, Paris,' said Hermes, Zeue bids thee judge freely which
of the three seems first in thine eyes and the father of gods and men will
be thy in giving true judgement.
Paris nodded in amazement, the sanctity of his simple life at once
eclipsed by the excitement and shallomes of the deed before bim.
The first goddess to a
to him was Hera, Queen of 0lympus.
She explained to the young shepherd that a wedding had,den place
between Peleus and Thetie, to which Eris alone 8mong the immortals had
not been included
a nonetheless at the feast, and churning trouble, she trew an apple at
the feet of three of the of the goddesses,
those who thought
greatest
emselves land Hera, Athene and
the most beautiful in the Aphrodite. Th
words: Fr the Fairest.
apple was inscribed with the