Thread 24791104

Can we really blame Paris for starting the Trojan War? By all accounts, it was unforeseeable that his actions would result in such a conflict.

>>24791104 (OP)
In Iliad (and I think Aeneid), Venus makes it clear to blame the gods (or the Fates, I don't exactly remember) instead of Paris and Helen

>>24791104 (OP)
It's like a group loser thinking he can pile on on a friend's roast. You don't have that right.

>>24791128
Paris was fucked no matter what. He had to choose one of three petty, vengeful goddesses. No matter which one he'd gone with, the other two were going to scheme to destroy him.

>>24791135
Damn, seems like the support of the goddess of wisdom would have been useful in that situation.

>>24791104 (OP)
It was the (((Phoenicians)))

>>24791104 (OP)
The french did this?

>>24791104 (OP)
It was unforseeable to him, since, at least according to the myths, the Greek kings had all pledged to protect Menelaus' marriage as security against any of them considering doing the same thing.

>>24791104 (OP)
Weren't all those examples single

>>24791104 (OP)
Paris was a thug. The prophecy said that paris would destroy the kingdom so they put him somewhere in the countryside and he became a thuggish and brute goat herder without knowledge about his royal blood. Priam literally created the conditions that made Paris do it

>>24791135
It was Zeus part at first but he knew that you can't win in such a situation

He gave them the cassus belli to invade. Perhaps one could argue they would have invaded eventually regardless, but his actions ensured they would always have the moral high-ground.

>>24792068
I saw that movie…

The more important question is:

Was Helen a filthy whoring jezebel?

They say the Japanese find the Trojan War fascinating in theory but upon trying to read primary sources become highly disoriented and depressed. They call this Paris syndrome.

>>24792268
Kek

>>24792214
Nah. She just had a woman moment. After that small indiscretion she was a good wife.