<P> Thus it happened that , with Hermes as their guide , the three candidates bathed in the spring of Ida , then confronted Paris on Mount Ida in the climactic moment that is the crux of the tale . After failing to judge their beauty with their clothing on , the three goddesses stripped nude to convince Paris of their worthiness . While Paris inspected them , each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia , Athena offered wisdom and skill in war , and Aphrodite , who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras of Athens ) , offered the world 's most beautiful woman ( Euripides , Andromache , l. 284 , Helena l . 676 ) . This was Helen of Sparta , wife of the Greek king Menelaus . Paris accepted Aphrodite 's gift and awarded the apple to her , receiving Helen as well as the enmity of the Greeks and especially of Hera . The Greeks ' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War . </P>
<P> Thus it happened that , with Hermes as their guide , the three candidates bathed in the spring of Ida , then confronted Paris on Mount Ida in the climactic moment that is the crux of the tale . After failing to judge their beauty with their clothing on , the three goddesses stripped nude to convince Paris of their worthiness . While Paris inspected them , each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia , Athena offered wisdom and skill in war , and Aphrodite , who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras of Athens ) , offered the world 's most beautiful woman ( Euripides , Andromache , l. 284 , Helena l . 676 ) . This was Helen of Sparta , wife of the Greek king Menelaus . Paris accepted Aphrodite 's gift and awarded the apple to her , receiving Helen as well as the enmity of the Greeks and especially of Hera . The Greeks ' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War . </P>
where did the judgement of paris take place
where did the judgement of paris take place
Mount Ida
Mount Ida