Paris

Paris was a son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. He was left exposed on Mount Ida as a baby, in the hopes of avoiding a prophecy that he would bring about the downfall of Troy, but he was suckled by a she-bear and eventually grew up strong and hale. He was asked by Zeus to arbitrate the divine beauty contest between Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena, choosing Aphrodite (who bribed him with the offer of the love of the most beautiful woman on Earth, Helen of Sparta). When Paris stole Helen away from her husband, Menelaus, though, he set in motion the Greeks' expedition to retrieve Helen and the ten-year Trojan War. Not a skilled warrior, Paris only avoided being killed during the War with Aphrodite's assistance, but he was responsible for the death of the Greek hero Achilles. He was mortally wounded late on in the war by Philoctetes and, although his youthful lover from Mount Ida, the nymph Oenone, refused to heal him, she nevertheless threw herself on his funeral pyre.