Paris (The Myth Makers)
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Prince Paris was the son of King Priam of Troy and the brother of Hector, Cassandra and Troilus. He persuaded Spartan Queen Helen to leave her husband Menelaus and return to Troy, leading to the Trojan War.
Paris tried to avoid fighting the Greek hero Achilles, despite his father's urgings. One day he found the TARDIS and had it brought into the city, protesting when his father wanted to burn it. He was kind to Vicki Pallister, believing that she wasn't a Greek spy.
When Paris was forced by his father to seek out Achilles, he did so reluctantly. Instead of Achilles, however, he encountered Steven Taylor, who was pretending to be a Greek soldier named Diomede. Steven offered to let Paris defeat him in battle, then Steven would be captured and taken back to Troy, where he would tell everyone how Paris defeated him in battle.
Paris found what he believed was the "Great Horse of Asia" and had it brought into the city. However, it was full of Greek soldiers, who attacked Troy in the night. Paris was killed in the fall of Troy in circa 1200 BC. (TV: The Myth Makers [+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (TV story)"])
Paris was featured in the play Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, which was set during the Trojan War. At its start, the Prologue explained that sixty-nine rulers were on their way "to ransack Troy, within whose strong immures the ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen, with wanton Paris sleeps". In Act II Scene II, Paris, Priam, Hector, Troilus and Helenus discussed a message from Nestor in which a peaceful resolution to the conflict was promised if they simply returned Helen. Cassandra later arrived and prophesied the fall of Troy, saying "our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all". (PROSE: Troilus and Cressida [+]Loading...["Troilus and Cressida (short story)"])
