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Was choosing Aphrodite really worth it?

>> No.13032122

>>13032076
What did he lose?

>> No.13032133

>>13032076
Having either Hera or Athena against one spelled doom whatever the choice; perhaps given the absolutely no win situation Aphrodite was the best choice after all; certainly the patrician's, if not the manliest.

>> No.13032139

>>13032133
*absolute

>> No.13032151
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>>13032076
Paris was a brainlet, he should have chosen Athene

>> No.13032157

>>13032133


Athena literally ensures you have fame victory and wisdom and glory I do not see the downside.


With that surely you can get powsi

>> No.13032162

She gives great head

>> No.13032201

>>13032157
Hera's her match, and can enlist more readily the aid of Zeus. Also, Athene had too much at stake in the Greek camp already, Odysseus and Diomedes already great favorites. Aphrodite was also herself a member of the Trojan royal family via Anchises to Aeneas, her son. In a way there was really no other choice for him to make.

>> No.13032665

>>13032157
No woman will love you because Aohrodite is butthurt.
Hera will make sure you will never be powerful.

>> No.13032679

>>13032201
>Aphrodite was also herself a member of the Trojan royal family via Anchises to Aeneas, her son. In a way there was really no other choice for him to make.
This is the correct reasoning.
Think about it. Greeks and Trojans would've already been butting heads over trade in the Aegean. So youre left to choose between two greek lovers (who for all you know will back stab you first chance they get) or, you can go with one that has proven to be a supporter of Troy, and that promises you a hotwife.
Who are you gonna go with?

>> No.13032697

>>13032133
Going by pedigree, Aphrodite ranks highest.

Paris might have been trying to metagame.

>> No.13032703

>>13032076
are you joking? his decision hasn't exactly gone down in history as the wisest, has it.
it's one of a long line of mistakes made by men to satisfy real and simple needs

>> No.13032726

>>13032133
A) Zeus' sluttishness and repeatcucking of Hera means Aphrodite trumps Hera.

B) All the quests that Athena is known for solving are problems created by lust. Crf Minotaur, Medusa. Lust creates problems, like a chad, Athena is permanently cleanup detail.

Again, metagaming. Too bad it failed.

>> No.13032742

>>13032703
Judging by other Greek tales, there was no right answer and Paris was fucked the moment he was put in a position to make that choice in the first place.

>> No.13032747

>>13032122
Everything

>> No.13032815

>>13032076
Yes.

-convinces Ares to side the Trojans after he already promised to side the greeks.

-golden girdle is so OP she has pull on all male gods.

-female gods willing to trade favors to rent girdle.

-won a footrace VS hermes

-most of the B- and C-tier gods are not legitimate children; aphrodite's domain of influence is half the reason for their existence.


OP is asking from hindsight. It might have seemed a good bet. And it was honest: the question was who is prettiest, not worthiest or most capable.

>Worth it?

-banged 100/10 Helen that can NTR her cucked spartan husband with one flash of boob after ten years war.

-killed Achilles who had the Fate points to end Zeus if he had been born a god.

-Griefed the Greeks, saw their mightiest dead; Greeks could not win without hax.

>> No.13032823

>>13032076
Hera is literally the most beautiful. That's the whole reason he got fucked was because he lied and said Aphrodite was more beautiful even though she wasn't.

>> No.13032857

>>13032823
>Hera is literally the most beautiful
I thought Aphrodite was consistently held as the most beautiful?

>> No.13032923

>>13032076
Life was made to be sacrificed to love. You aren't really living if you've sacrificed love.

>> No.13032981

>>13032823
If Hera was the most beautifulshe would not need to borrow Aprho's girdle to seduce zeus.

Zeus also wouldnt have boned every hottie thottie mortal woman in his path, plus exquisite boys.

Also, Hera's direct sprogs with zeus turned out Ares (4/10 coward, but dicc thicc) and Hephaestus (0/10 but brains). Zeus' kids with others can turn out 10/10s like Apollo and Artemis, Dionysius. So guess whose genes are fuggo?

>> No.13032989

>>13032823
Bait.

>> No.13033022

>>13032742
Even Zeus feared making the call, which is why he defers to Paris.

>> No.13033084

>>13032679
OP's is actually an intetesting question in that it has one consider what is generally just taken for granted- and yet it is the linchpin of the entire Greek enterprise. The more I consider it the more the grooves of fate become apparent. Very strange..

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>>13032823
Aphrodite was clearly the sexiest though

>> No.13033272

>>13033084
>it is the linchpin of the entire Greek enterprise
The epic cycle is pretty well thought out. Zeus himself is the one that gets the war started by leaving the decision to Paris. By leaving the decision to a Trojan, it dooms Troy.

>> No.13033734

Hera is the goddess of the cuckold historically, like actually though. And is also the cow-eyed most beautiful. She however while more beautiful is not sexual and is again cucked in her domain. Because Aphrodite is sex and passion and lust due to who accompanies her. In general she’s beauty personified but in specific she’s Sexuality and passion.

>> No.13034547

>>13033734
What the hell is cow eyed supposed to look like?

>> No.13034620
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13034620

THE FACT THAT THE CONVERSATION IN THIS THREAD IS ABERRANT, WITH EVERYONE INVOLVED DISCUSSING ON WHICH IS MORE BEAUTIFUL, OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE, AND WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER: HERA, OR APHRODITE, WHILST ENTIRELY NEGLECTING ATHENA, IS INDICATIVE OF THE PERVASIVE IGNOBILITY OF THE MAJORITY IN THIS BOARD, AND IN THE WORLD IN GENERAL.

THE CRISIS IS NOT ONE OF AESTHETICS, BUT ONE OF ETHICS —ID EST: IT IS A PROBLEM OF CHOOSING THE BEST ONE, NOT THE MOST PLEASING ONE; THE EXCELLENT ONE, NOT THE MORE BEAUTIFUL ONE, NOR THE «SEXIER» ONE, NOR THE MORE CONVENIENT OR EXPEDIENT ONE.

PARIS SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN ATHENA.

>> No.13034639

>>13034620
>all caps
yikes
>PARIS SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN ATHENA.
Choose one who already loves two greek men who have visited Troy? Why? That would be like General Patton choosing Miss USSR as winner of a pagent against Miss USA?
Paris made the correct choice for himself and his peoples.
Hera or athena wouldve still undone Troy, and even with athena on paris' side, she would still have defended the greeks whom she loved.

>> No.13034646

>>13034620
aphrodite sexy tho
get fukt

>> No.13034677

>>13034646
He should have chosen the one whose arsehole was opened up from childbearing: Hera.

>> No.13034823

>>13033272
Completely. And Paris chosen specifically to fulfill a prophesy, of course. Paris himself made the best choice in that only Aphrodite offers him something specific, the other two would have had the liberty to distort their proffered gifts in who knows what a manner-- these women aren't genies, but gods, a fact worth remembering.