Zeus invited all the gods and goddesses but one, Eris. On Olympus, home of the gods, Zeus planned a wedding feast for the sea nymph, Thetis, and her beloved, the mortal Peleus. It was in this way that the gods came to understand that Paris was a man who kept his word, and this is how he came to be the judge for one of the most extraordinary contests ever waged. Naturally, Ares easily won, and Paris proved how fair he was when he readily awarded Ares the crown. When Ares, the god of war, heard this, he transformed himself into a bull and accepted the challenge. One day, he offered a challenge: His bull would fight anyone’s bull to a battle. He often pitted his prize bull against the bulls of other men. Paris grew up to be a regal young man, beautiful, intelligent and wise, beloved by women and men alike. He took this as a sign: The boy was meant to live.Īnd so, in secret, Agelaus took Paris to his home to rear the boy as his own son. In the morning, when Agelaus returned for the body, he found the boy alive and safe. He could not kill this baby, and so he left tiny Paris there, alone, in the wilderness, certain to perish.īut that night a bear came upon the baby and took pity on him. King Priam called upon his chief herdsman, Agelaus, to do the deed.Īgelaus carried the baby to desolate Mount Ida. They knew they must destroy him, but they could not bear to do it. “He must be killed to save our people.”Īnd so when the baby boy, named Paris, was born, Hecuba and Priam looked into his eyes and fought against their fears.
“Your newborn son will be the downfall of Troy,” Aesacus said. When she told her husband, King Priam, he became worried and called upon his eldest son, Aesacus, the seer, to tell him the meaning.
But one night she dreamed she gave birth to a flaming torch. The queen was pregnant at the time, eagerly awaiting the birth of her first child. Once upon a time, long ago, Queen Hecuba of Troy had a dream.
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