Today we are going to travel back in time, 2 thousand years ago... to Ancient Troy, where Turkey is today. In those times, it was common for gods to mingle with mortals. That's what happened at the wedding of the Greek hero Peleus with the sea nymph Thetis.
-Why wasn't I invited to the party? asked Eride, the goddess of Discord, and, true to her name, she decided to provoke confusion and a fight among the goddesses present.
So it was then that she appeared at the banquet with a golden apple bearing the following phrase: "For the most beautiful". The goddesses of Olympus were attracted by the apple and believed they deserved this title. Three goddesses, Athena, Aphrodite and Hera fought over the apple.
-Which goddess is the most beautiful? they asked each other.
And since they could not decide, the father of all gods, Zeus, left this difficult choice to a young mortal named Paris, who was the son of the king of Troy, Priam. During the trial, the three goddesses tried to tempt Paris with their seduction to choose one of them.
The goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, offered him all the power he could desire and the title of Emperor of Asia; Athena, goddess of intelligence and war, offered him wisdom and the possibility of winning every battle he entered; and the goddess Aphrodite offered him the love of the most beautiful mortal in Greece.
The young Paris, who was a very earthly prince, opted for the proposal of the goddess Aphrodite, who from that moment on was considered the goddess of beauty. But his decision had great consequences for his people, since the most beautiful mortal was none other than Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta, Menelaus, and running away with her meant the beginning of the Trojan War. Not to mention that the offended goddesses Hera and Athena sided with the Greeks and did not stop until Paris and Troy were destroyed, as Homer tells in The Iliad....
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