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Judgement of Paris
Relief from a Roman sarcophagus - early Hadrian (76-138 AD)
From the left: Hera, Athena Hermes, Aphrodite. Under the tree sits Paris with a winged Eros on his back, to the right of the tree sits what could be Dionysus on the skin of an animal and a nymph, or some other deities representing Paris’ tie with nature.
Notice especially the woman with the pipes between Aphrodite and Paris - she is generally identified as Oinone, Paris’ first wife. We have no account of the existence of a first wife of Paris in our early sources of the myth, but she appears in literature in Ovid’s Heroides 5 (late golden age) and in Lucian’s Dearum judicium (silver age). The pipes she’s holding is our best argument for her identity. Euripides has Paris stroll about on Mt. Ida playing the pan pipes and it is a typical instrument of the herdsman.
Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano - inv. 8563
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