It started
with a beauty pageant. One day, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite got into a rather
vocal discussion about who was the most beautiful. Unable to resolve this pressing
issue, they went to Zeus and asked him to decide who was the most beautiful.
Now Zeus
often isn’t given a lot of credit. He’s seen as the god who just goes out to
schtup mortals; however, on this occasion he paused and looked around. The
contest was between Hera, his wife; Athena, his daughter; and Aphrodite, his
adopted daughter. Under thes circumstances, he decided, most wisely, that he
wasn’t the man for the job—really, what man would actually go through with
that, knowing the headaches it would later cause? Instead, he sent them off to
a guy named Paris, claiming Paris had sound judgement.
Zeus is a
smart cookie.
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