![]() ![]() This books is about two other beautiful women who were involved in the war, Briseis and Krisayis. In For The Most Beautiful she is described not as much beautiful, as she is enchanting, enticing.Īnd I'm giving her too much attention. What adult woman in her right mind would leave her powerful husband for a pretty face while knowing that she'll start a war? How can she not think of all the innocents that would die? *sigh* As I said, I don't like her. ![]() To be honest, I have always despised her. Moving on, I'm delighted that the book doesn't center around Helen. It sure looks like the gods have a hard time. Zeus finally gives in, and offers his wife Troy in exchange for three of her best cities. So Hera orders a thousand ships from Zeus to go after Paris and destroy Troy. And Helen will create a problem, he thinks. What a fool Paris was not to run away as soon as he heard what the goddesses wanted him to do. Hermes, the god of trickery and thieving, turns away from where he has been watching, hidden from Paris and the goddesses behind the thick trunk of the olive tree. Needless to say, the other two goddesses are furious. thinks with his lower head, and gives the damned apple to the goddess of love (she was his favourite even before having seen Helen). She tells him he would have her >.< The stupid son of a. Hera offers him the world, Athena promises to make him the bravest warrior (I'm not sure I remember this one exactly), and Aphrodite shows him the most beautiful woman in the human world. They present Paris with a golden apple, inscribed with the words For the most beautiful, and ask him to choose the fairest of them. But it was all a ruse of the gods, as they were bored in their immorality.Įnter the three goddesses (Hera, Athena and Aphrodite). As most of you know, the war happened because Paris took Helen from her husband, the Spartan king Menelaus. He was a Romanian author who wrote stories about the Greek gods and heroes.įor The Most Beautiful is a story about the Trojan War. ![]() I liked this book very much! It felt like reading something Alexandru Mitru would write. ![]()
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