<P> Paris (Ancient Greek: Πάρις), also known as Alexander (Ἀλέξανδρος, Aléxandros), the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends . Probably the best known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War . Later in the war, he fatally wounds Achilles in the heel with an arrow as foretold by Achilles's mother, Thetis . The name Paris is probably Luwian and comparable to Pari - zitis, attested as a Hittite scribe's name . </P> <P> Paris was a child of Priam and Hecuba (see the list of King Priam's children). Just before his birth, his mother dreamed that she gave birth to a flaming torch . This dream was interpreted by the seer Aesacus as a foretelling of the downfall of Troy, and he declared that the child would be the ruin of his homeland . On the day of Paris's birth, it was further announced by Aesacus that the child born of a royal Trojan that day would have to be killed to spare the kingdom, being the child that would bring about the prophecy . Though Paris was indeed born before nightfall, he was spared by Priam . Hecuba was also unable to kill the child, despite the urging of the priestess of Apollo, one Herophile . Instead, Paris's father prevailed upon his chief herdsman, Agelaus, to remove the child and kill him . The herdsman, unable to use a weapon against the infant, left him exposed on Mount Ida, hoping he would perish there (cf . Oedipus). He was, however, suckled by a she - bear . Returning after nine days, Agelaus was astonished to find the child still alive and brought him home in a backpack (Greek pḗra, hence by folk etymology Paris's name) to rear as his own . He returned to Priam bearing a dog's tongue as evidence of the deed's completion . </P>

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