Paris, a prince of Troy's royal family, was asked to judge the beauty of three goddesses - Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena - and so settle a dispute that arose among them when Eris, the Goddess of Discord, threw a golden apple inscribed 'For the Fairest' among the guests at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.

Match The Iliad by Homer, read by Stanley Lombardo (12 CDs. retail ed. Parmenides Audio. 2006. ISBN 978-1-930972-08-7. $42), to a long straight drive with nothing much to see so that you can safely sink into the meter. Homer’s dark meditation features the rage and regret of Achilles during the Trojan War, at the siege of Ilium. The epic was meant to be recited aloud, and Lombardo’s spellbinding narration acts as a time capsule, hurling listeners back to the heroic age and placing them in the presence of a master storyteller. His voice slips into chant, rises and crests with the terrible violence of battle, and shifts into pure incantation as Homer transitions into the emotional caverns of the story"". - Library Journal“Great poetry is best heard, not just read… Lombardo’s voice is wonderfully resonant and expressive… and together with the original music, beautifully evokes the world of the Trojan War and Odysseus’ journey home.” - The Bloomsbury Review, Nov 2006