How Did Paris Kill Achilles

Paris, also known as Alexandros, was born to Hecuba and Priam. His mother had a dream regarding his birth, that he was a flaming torch. Paris’s sister, Cassandra, told her parents that she had a dream of Paris ruining the city and bringing destruction to Troy. As a result, Hecuba wanted to kill him, so she sent him into the wilderness to die. However, he was found in the wilderness by a shepherd, who raised him As Paris grew older, he married Oenone. One of his dad’s servants took one of Paris’s bull’s. The bull was a prize for the funeral games in Troy. Paris traveled to Troy to take his bull. Before he traveled to Troy, three goddesses visited him; Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. They came to settle the conflict that they had at Peleus’s wedding. Everyone except for Eris, the goddess of discord, was invited to the wedding. She went to crash the wedding to …show more content…
Before Hector's death he warned Achilles that he would die in Paris’s hands. Paris fired an arrow that struck Achilles in the foot. Achilles died. Once the greeks brought in the Trojan horse which they were hiding in, they ruined the city by burning it to the ground. Unfortunately, Paris didn’t get to see the fall of the city. Philoctetes who was one of Helen’s previous suitors fought with the bow of Heracles, shot an arrow that wounded Paris. Paris died from the wound, because his first wife Oenone who had the power to heal any wound that he might suffer from. Oenone was still angry about Paris wanting Helen that she refused to help him then she felt bad and rushed back to Troy. Unfortunately, it was too late and he died They burned down the city of Troy. The Trojan War lasted for 10 years. Greeks could not break down the walls of Troy. The Greeks won the war because Hector died
After Paris died Helen remarried to Paris’s brother Deiphobus. After the won of the war by the Greeks. Helen reunited with her old husband Menelaus and helped him kill