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Vieve-Kethrun — The Misjudgement of Paris
Published: 2008-01-15 22:35:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 3519; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 87
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For those of you who happen to know a bit about Greek mythology, think the origin of the Trojan war.
For those of you blessed enough to not know a lot about that particular myth, a brief summary.
The trojan war was fought between the city-states of Greece and Troy, because Paris, son of King Priam of Troy made off with the most beautiful woman in the land: Helen. Helen, was the wife of the king of Sparta who, quite rightly, wanted her back, along with reparations. Paris refused to give her up, and thus began a ten year war, a description of which can be read in Homer's Illiad and Odyssey.
Theres a lot more attached to this, but I'd be willing to bet you don't want to hear it.
Anywho, Helen was stolen because the embodiment of Chaos tossed a golden apple to the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite during a wedding with the inscription "to the most beautiful". All three wanted it, and went to Zeus. He (intelligently, for once) refused to judge the competiton, and threw the apple to earth, where the unsuspecting Paris picked it up. And he was named judge of the contest.
No, he didn't pick the 'Good Idea'. T_T
Still more than you wanted to know, yes?
This has been done long enough for me to dislike it, but not long enough to redraw it. Plus I rushed to get it done before the last semster so i could give it to my mythology teacher. ^^ She liked it, i think, which is what actually matters.
Art is mine, so please don't steal.
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That's the problem with the Greek gods and goddesses, is that they want mortals to judge their beauty/musical abilities and then when the poor hapless mortal makes a choice, the others get mad and punish that mortal in some way.
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lol, he was screwed from the get go, going to favorite this! I was always thought he should have given them all a slice while saying he simply couldn't give it to one when it was so obvious that while each was special in her own way that they were great.
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'course it prob never occured to Paris that if he chose Hera he would have the power to be a war mongering ass and take Hellen whether Aphrodite gave her to him or not.... so he's screwed with love (didnt really matter much in those days anyway) not only that but he would have the muscle to back up the war mongering-ness *sage nod*
oh yea wisdom prob would have been spiffy too
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Well that's a bit unfair. It's the whole idea of the thing : the other gods didn't want to do the judgement because they didn't want to get on bad terms with their fellow godesses, so they decided to pick a random mortal because they didn't care a damn if he was cursed/killed after that. Bastards.
And frankly I don't think Paris could have answered that : they wanted a friggin', definitive answer, and you better give the gods what they want, or else... So in the end Paris had to choose one of the three, and just got the bribe he prefered the most. Refusing to do the judgement, THAT would have angered the godesses.
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Probably true. But Paris is still an idiot, and he really could've just ended the war and just given Hellen back. But he chose not to.
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Paris is a tool anyways. And that's why they got Orlando Bloom to play him in Troy.
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lol Oh, that explains so much.
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OMG... that's awesome love. You need to do many more of these! <3
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Thank ye kindly!
Do we have a subject for these 'more' you speak of? Cause I'm open to doing more.
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These mythological niceities. DOIT!
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Give me subject and myth wench!!!
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EPIC FAILURE.
I think that report cards should have an EPIC FAILURE option as well. XD Trojan War level of fail.
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That's because they don't want to die an early death.
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