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None of mortals is prosperous or happy to the last, for none was ever born to a painless life.
For though we are sending her to taste of bliss, still it wrings a parent’s heart when he, the father who has toiled so hard for them, commits his children to the homes of strangers.
The war-god Ares assumed the likeness of a bull and came down to challenge the bull of Paris. And Ares, in the shape of a bull, did contest with the bull of Paris and emerged the victor. Now Paris, seeing that Ares had defeated his champion bull, placed the crown between the war-god’s horns to acknowledge his victory. Word of this contest spread, and because of his impartiality, as a judge he was said to be just.
Thus Paris was chosen by Zeus to adjudicate upon the three goddesses.
They came to the island of Ithaca to recruit Odysseus, son of Laertes. It had been foretold to Odysseus that if he went to Troy he would only return home after twenty years, alone and destitute. And so, when he heard that the emissaries were coming, he feigned insanity; he put on a felt cap and joined a horse and an ox to the plough.
Priests began to dread the return of Paris, recalling the dream of his mother, and they said that he ought to be slain. When this reached the ear of the king, he said: “Better the city should perish than the death of our child.”
To Thetis, aged Proteus once had said, “Oh goddess of the waves, you shall conceive, and you shall be the mother of a youth who by heroic actions will surpass the deeds of his own father, and your son shall be superior to his father’s power.” So Zeus, although the flame of love for Thetis burned his breast, would not embrace the lovely daughter of the sea, and urged his grandson Peleus, son of Aeacus, to wed the green-haired maid without delay.