It begins with the birth of Paris, as well as Cassandra's prophecy that he would be the cause of Troy's destruction. Worried, his father, King Priam, leaves him on Mount Ida, where he is found and raised by the shepherd Agelaus. When he is an adult, Paris goes off on a friendly fight with some other shepherds. One of them tells him about his goat named Stubos that got away again and he chases it to a cave where the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite appear and ask him to judge which of them is the most beautiful. To bribe him, Hera offered him power while Athena offers him victory yet he chooses Aphrodite, who promises him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world.