Paris

Family: Trojan · Role: warrior · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.12

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Paris) · The Aeneid (as Paris) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Paris) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Paris) · The Divine Comedy (as Paris)

At birth, Priam ordered the infant Paris exposed on Ida, but Agelaus rescued him after finding him safe and raised him as his own son on his farm. Paris later married Oenone, who had learned prophecy from Rhea and warned him not to sail for Helen; she also told him to come to her if he was wounded, because she alone could heal him.

Hera offered him rule over all men, Athena promised victory in war, and Aphrodite offered him Helen’s hand. Paris persuaded Helen to leave with him from Sparta, then fought Menelaus in single combat and was carried away by Aphrodite when he was losing. During the war, he shot Achilles in the ankle with Apollo at the Scaean gate; after the war had lasted ten years, Philoctetes, cured by Podalirius, returned and shot Paris.

Relationship record

Life events

Priam ordered the infant Paris exposed, but Agelaus rescued and raised him as his own son.(Apollodorus, Library 3.12 · 📍 Ida)
- With: Priam Agelaus
- “When the babe was born Priam gave it to a servant to take and expose on Ida; now the servant was named Agelaus. Exposed by him, the infant was nursed for five days by a bear; and, when he found it safe, he took it up, carried it away, brought it up as his own son on his farm, and named him Paris.”
Philoctetes, cured by Podalirius, returned and shot Paris.(Apollodorus, Epitome 5)
- With: Odysseus Diomedes Philoctetes Podalirius
- “So he went, and after being cured by Podalirius, he shot Alexander.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

guardian: Agelaus “when he found it safe, he took it up, carried it away, brought it up as his own son on his farm, and named him Paris.”
married with Oenone “and Alexander married Oenone, daughter of the river Cebren.”
mentor: Oenone “She had learned from Rhea the art of prophecy, and warned Alexander not to sail to fetch Helen”
enemies with Philoctetes “he was shot by Philoctetes with the bow of Hercules”
parent: Priam “When the babe was born Priam gave it to a servant to take and expose on Ida”
with Helen (interaction) “when he had carried off Helen from Sparta”
with Philoctetes (interaction) “he was shot by Philoctetes with the bow of Hercules”
with Oenone (interaction) “she told him to come to her if he were wounded, for she alone could heal him”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

courtship with Helen “Alexander persuaded Helen to go off with him”
with Hera (interaction) “Hera said that if she were preferred to all women, she would give him the kingdom over all men”
with Athena (interaction) “Athena promised victory in war”
with Aphrodite (interaction) “Aphrodite the hand of Helen.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 4

enemies with Menelaus “And Alexander fought a single combat with Menelaus; and when Alexander got the worst of it, Aphrodite carried him off.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 5

with Achilles (interaction) “Achilles was shot with an arrow in the ankle by Alexander and Apollo at the Scaean gate.”
with Philoctetes (interaction) “after being cured by Podalirius, he shot Alexander.”

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