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Paris
Son of Priam and Hekabe, also known as Alexandros. While out on the mountain near Troy Paris was approached by Hermes, Hera, Athena and Aphrodite and asked to make his famous judgement. The story is alluded to only once in the Iliad, in Book 24. To get Helen, his reward for choosing Aphrodite, Paris had to violate the sacred guest-host relationship.
In the Iliad Paris behaves less than heroically and has to be saved by Aphrodite from his duel with Menelaos in Book 3. Ironically though, it is his arrow that later kills Achilles. Paris himself is killed just before the end of the war by Philoktetes, who used Herakles' bow. Paris suffered a lingering death from the poisoned arrows.
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