Paris Helen.
     Paris and Helen. After Paris was reunited with his family, his father sent him on a mission to the court of Menelaus, king of Sparta, where he was received with great hospitality. While Menelaus was in Crete, however, Paris abducted (or seduced) the king’s wife, Helen, the most beautiful woman in all Greece, and took her to Troy. Although it is not mentioned in the Iliad, the most usual explanation for the abduction is his selection of Aphrodite in the Judgment of Paris: the goddess had promised Paris the world’s most beautiful woman in exchange for the apple of victory, and she now helped him in his conquest of Helen.
     Although most Trojans supported Paris and admired Helen’s beauty, some regarded her with suspicion, even hostility. Hector, Paris’s elder brother, despised the war that Helen had caused and upbraided Paris for giving his attention to Helen and the marriage bed rather than the Greeks and the battlefield. According to some accounts, Paris and Helen had several children, all of whom died in infancy.