![]() ![]() And for this reason, some believed that the Greeks, unable to grasp what they had in front of their eyes, thought that Proteus 3 was changing his form when he just changed his crown.Īs it has been told many times, Eris threw an apple as a prize of beauty during the wedding party of Peleus and Thetis. As a result, the three goddesses who contested the prize were judged by the shepherd Paris on Mount Ida. But he, nurturing a strange notion about his role as a judge, let himself be bribed, so that Aphrodite received the award, and he was given in exchange the hand of the Helen, queen of Sparta. Next, Paris came to that city, fetched his bride and took her to Troy, and as the Trojans refused to restore her to her husband Menelaus, a terrible war ensued, and Troy was destroyed. However, others affirm that Helen never reached Troy, and that the seducer Paris was accompanied by a phantom fashioned out of clouds, which Hera fashioned. For the sake of this phantom, they assert, Achaeans and Trojans slaughtered each other during ten years, and the city was destroyed. But in the meantime, Hermes carried the real Helen to Egypt, giving her to King Proteus 3, so that he would guard her. ![]() "To Troy I went not: that a phantom was." ( Helen to Menelaus. Euripides, Helen 582).Īs there is no great achievement in believing something which is perfectly ordinary, some have found that the account of the phantom, which is sometimes said to have been fashioned and sent to Troy by Zeus himself, deserved more credibility than the more common tale of the Achaeans and Trojans slaughtering each other during a decade for the sake of a real woman. ![]()
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