Paris, hero of Troy

Paris was an historical person, son of Priam and Hecuba, the kings of Troy. Paris appears in many legends of the ancient Greece about the Trojan War.

The legend told that Paris kidnaped the Spartan king’s wife, Helen, in a diplomatic mission. The kings of Greece respond to help their allies and form and army to take back Helen.

  

In the coast of Troy, starts a bloody war. But the Spartan king´s, Menelaus, send a diplomatic mission to take back his wife and stop the bloodbath offering a duel to Paris.

The winner of this duel can keep Helen as her new husband. Paris was afraid and easily defeated by Menelaus, but Aphrodite take out Paris of combat. This violation of the agreement supposes the restart of the war.

Latter, Paris was the responsible for kill Achilles, hero from Greece, with a poisoned arrow in his weak spot. But Paris, apparently for accident, stab the arrow himself and dying a couple of hours after.