The Apple of Discord

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by malloyd

Outside the context of the myth, he presumably picks Aphrodite because she is the local girl - more popular in Ionia than mainland Greece, and heavily influenced by eastern goddesses.

Which interestingly enough is making a myth of your own rather then getting outside the context of myth. You are in fact being no different then a shaman who tells me that wheat grows because Father Sky married Mother Earth rather then using boring words like precipitation and evaporation. Paris said to be picking Aphrodite because Aphrodite was imported from the east is a myth to explain a fact of myth not unlike other myths made to explain facts of nature.