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Beauty contest that promoted war: How feuding goddesses caused the Trojan War

All the Olympian divine beings were welcome to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis aside from Eris, the goddess of disagreement. Furious, Eris chose to show the amassed Olympians a thing or two. She tossed among them a brilliant apple on which was engraved the words, 'For the most delightful.' Three goddesses – Hera, goddess of family, Athena, goddess of abilities, and Aphrodite, goddess of magnificence – guaranteed the apple and battled about it. No god, not even Zeus, tried appointed authority who of the three goddesses was the most delightful, and thus deserving of the apple. At long last, the goddesses were advised to go to Paris, sovereign of Troy, known for his comprehension of female magnificence and his reasonable decisions. The three goddesses introduced themselves to Paris and attempted to dazzle him with their excellence. At the point when he was unable to choose, each attempted to pay off him furtively. Hera vowed to make him leader of the best realm on the planet. Ath...