Paris, his bull, and Ares: Rawlinson Excidium Troiae (c. 6th Century AD): After [Paris] had grown up, his guardian clothed him in big clothes, to then assume pastoral habit. And he came to be the most renowned among the shepherds. To him, Paris, a bull of extraordinary size was born in his herd. That bull fought with other bulls of the shepherds and won against every single one of them. After Paris had seen him always being the victor, he gave him a golden crown between his horns. Seeing this, Mars transformed himself into the form of a bull and showed himself to fight with Paris’ bull. He, Mars, being in the form of a bull, fought Paris’ bull, and Mars stood as the victor. Then Paris, seeing Mars in the form of a bull, surmounted his bull and gave Mars the crown which he previously put on his bull. And because he served justice and he did not hinder himself, he was called a just judge. This opinion of him spread out. Thus Jupiter rightfully sought him as a judge between the three goddesses. {From Excidium Troiae or Destruction of Troy by an anonymous author, translated by Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman}
From Ptolemaeus Chennus: Helen had a daughter by Alexander; they disagreed about the name to hive here; he wanted to call her Alexandra, she wanted to call her Helen; Helen carried her in a 'partie d'osselets' and the infant received the same name as her mother; this daughter was killed, it is said, by Hecuba when Troy was taken. (Not considered canon, as I don't usually go with Helen and Paris having children; other sources give them a number of sons, too, however.)
Apollo organised funeral games in honour of Python; Hermes contributed to it, like Aphrodite; she won and accepted as prize a zither which she gave as a gift to Alexander.
(The versions and details in Chennus' New History are all kind of questionable, but I like cherry-picking from it, in particular the gift of the lyre/zither.)
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Date: 2022-09-18 12:31 am (UTC)Rawlinson Excidium Troiae (c. 6th Century AD): After [Paris] had grown up, his guardian clothed him in big clothes, to then assume pastoral habit. And he came to be the most renowned among the shepherds. To him, Paris, a bull of extraordinary size was born in his herd. That bull fought with other bulls of the shepherds and won against every single one of them. After Paris had seen him always being the victor, he gave him a golden crown between his horns. Seeing this, Mars transformed himself into the form of a bull and showed himself to fight with Paris’ bull. He, Mars, being in the form of a bull, fought Paris’ bull, and Mars stood as the victor. Then Paris, seeing Mars in the form of a bull, surmounted his bull and gave Mars the crown which he previously put on his bull. And because he served justice and he did not hinder himself, he was called a just judge. This opinion of him spread out. Thus Jupiter rightfully sought him as a judge between the three goddesses. {From Excidium Troiae or Destruction of Troy by an anonymous author, translated by Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman}
From Ptolemaeus Chennus:
Helen had a daughter by Alexander; they disagreed about the name to hive here; he wanted to call her Alexandra, she wanted to call her Helen; Helen carried her in a 'partie d'osselets' and the infant received the same name as her mother; this daughter was killed, it is said, by Hecuba when Troy was taken. (Not considered canon, as I don't usually go with Helen and Paris having children; other sources give them a number of sons, too, however.)
Apollo organised funeral games in honour of Python; Hermes contributed to it, like Aphrodite; she won and accepted as prize a zither which she gave as a gift to Alexander.
(The versions and details in Chennus' New History are all kind of questionable, but I like cherry-picking from it, in particular the gift of the lyre/zither.)