wever, if Paris is defeated, Helen is returned and therefore a truce would be reached and the war would be over.Like Achilles, the hero of the Iliad, Paris has a goddess on his side. When face to face with Menelaos, Paris is injured and captured by the Aceans. However, Aphrodite,the goddess of love, intervenes and rescues her favorite warrior. Though the match was fairly won by Menelaos, Helen should have been returned to her husband. However, Paris had his own plan. Aphrodite had brought Helen back to Paris, and Paris ignored the pleas of Menelaos and Troy to return her.Book seven gives a contradictory look at Paris. Homer has Paris side by side his great warrior brother, Hector. In Books X and XI, Paris is on the battlefield the whole time picking off soldier after soldier."Vaunting, a flash in arms, Hector swept through the gates with his brother Paris, keeping pace beside him."What was known as a cowardly prince, fought bravery, and for what? Time after time Paris says "the fight for Helen", was it love? Or merely a contest of prizes? However one looks at it, there is no doubt Paris was the one, in the end, to cause the destruction of Troy....
