Paris

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.18 Paris

  Trojan prince whose theft of Helen caused the war; correspondent of the Heroides.

• The Art of Love §1.2 the Phrygian man

  Paris (Alexander), prince of Troy, who carried Helen off to Phrygia.

• The Art of Love §2.1 Priam's son

  Paris, who carried Helen off by sea from Sparta — the great elopement of myth.

• The Heroides §1 the adulterer

  Paris, the Trojan prince whose abduction of Helen from Sparta caused the Trojan War.

• The Heroides §5 Paris

  Son of Priam, exposed at birth and raised as a herdsman on Ida, where he married the nymph Oenone; later recognized as prince, he judged the goddesses and carried off Helen. The addressee.

• The Heroides §5 Priam's son

  Paris, once thought a slave-herdsman, now acknowledged a son of King Priam.

• The Heroides §8 Paris

  The Trojan who carried off Helen; but for Menelaus's war Hermione's mother would still be his.

• The Heroides §8 the Dardanian stranger

  Paris again, the Trojan interloper; Pyrrhus now plays his ruinous part toward Hermione.

• The Heroides §8 an Idaean guest

  Paris of Mount Ida, the Trojan guest who abducted Helen and drew Greece to war.

• The Heroides §13 Paris, son of Priam

  The Trojan abductor of Helen, 'evil Paris,' whose crime brought on the war; Laodamia curses him.

• The Heroides §16 son of Priam

  Paris (Alexander), prince of Troy, who writes to seduce Helen, trusting Venus's promise from the Judgment. The speaker.

• The Heroides §16 a Phrygian husband

  Paris himself, a Trojan (Phrygian), urging Helen not to disdain him.

• The Heroides §16 the guest of Ida

  Paris himself, the Trojan ('of Ida') guest whom Menelaus carelessly entrusted to Helen.

• The Heroides §17 Paris

  The Trojan prince and would-be seducer; the addressee.

• The Heroides §17 the Trojan guest

  Paris, whom the departing Menelaus carelessly committed to Helen's 'care.'

• The Heroides §19 the Idaean adulterer

  Paris of Ida, who came to Sparta and at once carried off Helen — another swift abductor.

• The Heroides §20 Paris

  The Trojan who abducted Helen; Acontius refuses to blame so manly a deed.

• Metamorphoses §12.351 Paris

  Son of Priam whose abduction of Helen caused the Trojan War; later he kills Achilles with an arrow.

• Metamorphoses §13.393 accuse Paris

  Son of Priam whose abduction of Helen began the war.

• Metamorphoses §15.514 Paris had once

  The Trojan prince whom Venus snatched from Menelaus in a cloud.

• The Cure for Love §2 Paris

  Trojan prince whose abduction of Helen began the Trojan War; cure him, Ovid claims, and Troy stands.