The Judgment of Paris

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The Trojan war

The Spark

The butterfly Effect

• The story of the Trojan War exemplifies the “butterfly effect”

• The Apple of Discord

• The Judgment of Paris

Nereids

• Sea Nymphs

• Thetis: most beautiful

Nereid

• Both Zeus and Poseidon really wanted Thetis as one of their conquests until…

• They both heard a prophecy that Thetis would bear a son who would be greater than his father.

• Didn’t go over well with such egotistical gods.

A Request from Hera

• Once he heard the prophecy,

Zeus appealed to Hera and asked her to set Thetis up with a mortal

• One with mortal blood couldn’t overtake an

Olympian

• Hera set Thetis up with a mortal man named Peleus

Wedding of Peleus and Thetis

• All of the big-shot divinities were there

• Centaurs, nymphs

• Apollo and muses served as her wedding band

• Even Hephaestus and Ares were getting along (crazy talk!)

• One goddess didn’t make the list… Eris, the goddess of discord

• Who would want discord and strife at her wedding?!

Eris seeks revenge

• The fact that Eris wasn’t invited to the party of the century turned out to have a maleficent domino effect

• Eris took an apple and wrote on it “To the Fairest One” and quietly placed it on the table with all of the guests’ gifts

• After all of merrymaking, the goddesses Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena saw the apple and began to squabble

The Fairest

• At a wedding, shouldn’t the

“Fairest” be the bride?!

These goddesses didn’t think so…

• They asked Zeus to intervene and determine who “the Fairest” was

• Zeus wanted nothing to do with the decision

• Zeus instructed Hermes to give the apple to Paris, prince of Troy

The judgment of

Paris

• Hermes called together Paris,

Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena to the mountain top

• Paris initially couldn’t decide who was “the Fairest,” but the goddesses wouldn’t let him go until he decided

• Each goddess bribed him

• Hera: rule of Europe and Asia

• Athena: wisdom and great combat skills

• Aphrodite: the most beautiful woman in the world

The result of the

Decision

• Aphrodite got the apple

• He made enemies with 2 goddesses

• Aphrodite consulted with

Eros about the most beautiful woman in the world

• Result: Helen of Sparta, who was already to married to Menelaus, king of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon

The Mission

• Aphrodite and Paris plotted to get Helen away from

Menelaus and bring her to

Troy

• A piece of apple caused one of the greatest wars of the

Western World

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