PARIS

In ——e, Pa was tho we fon of Priam, King ‘oy. Prophecy se | having declared that he would cause the | destruction of Troy, he was abandoned, a soon after birth, on Mount Ids. He was ¢ found and reared by a shepherd, and on a | growing up proved a valiant defender of s, shepherds and their flocks. He succeeded jin oe his real origin, and was e | received by Pr am as his son. To Paris was ve | entrusted by Zeus the decision as to which | of the three goddc es—Hera, Athens, 2,, or Aphrodite—was the fairest. Having & decided in favour of Aphrodite (Weans), p, she a isted him in abducting Hf the - | beautiful wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. it | The Siege of Troy was the attempt of the 8 | Greeks to regain Helen and avenge the 3, | Wrong to Menelaus, During the fighting n | Paris died from a wound given by one of d | the poisoned arrows of Phi loc tetes. -| [s. 235]