Πάριον

Parion

Translated by David Whitehead4 Mar 2010Vetting: high5 revisions

4 notes · 153 words
Name of a rural place, called after Paris the [man] also [known as] Alexandros;1 for his father Priam sent him there to be raised; previously the place was called Amandros.2 There Alexandros spent 30 years, acquired a good nature, and was fully educated in Greek wisdom. He also issued a discourse in praise of Aphrodite, saying that she was greater than Athena and Hera; for Aphrodite, he said, was that desire out of which are born all bad things for men.3 Hence arose the story that Paris made a judgement between Pallas and Hera and Aphrodite and gave Aphrodite the apple, i.e. the victory. He also declaimed a hymn to her, the so-called Kestos. They write that this was the cause of the war. When the 30 years were completed, his father4 summoned him and sent him to [perform] sacrifices; and when he went to Sparta and found Helen there he abducted her.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πάριον· ὄνομα ἀγροῦ, ἀπὸ Πάριδος τοῦ καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου κληθέν· ἐκεῖσε γὰρ ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν Πρίαμος ὁ πατὴρ τρέφεσθαι· τοπρὶν δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἄμανδρος ὁ τόπος. ἐκεῖ τε διατρίψας Ἀλέξανδρος τοὺς λʹ ἐνιαυτοὺς φύσεώς τε δεξιᾶς τετυχηκὼς πᾶσαν ἐπαιδεύθη σοφίαν Ἑλληνικήν. ἐξέθετο δὲ καὶ λόγον εἰς ἐγκώμιον τῆς Ἀφροδίτης, λέγων μείζονα αὐτὴν εἶναι τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς καὶ τῆς Ἥρας· τὴν γὰρ Ἀφροδίτην τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν εἶπεν, ἐξ ἧς τίκτεται παντὰ τὰ κακὰ ἀνθρώποις. ἐντεῦθεν φέρεται μῦθος, ὅτι ὁ Πάρις ἔκρινε μεταξὺ Παλλάδος καὶ Ἥρας καὶ Ἀφροδίτης καὶ τῇ Ἀφροδίτῃ δέδωκε τὸ μῆλον, ὅ ἐστι τὴν νίκην. εἶπε δὲ καὶ ὕμνον εἰς αὐτήν, τὸν λεγόμενον Κεστόν. ταύτην γράφουσι τὴν αἰτίαν γενέσθαι τοῦ πολέμου. συντελεσθέντων τῶν λʹ ἐνιαυτῶν, μεταστειλάμενος τοῦτον ὁ πατὴρ ἔπεμψεν εἰς θυσίας. ὃς ἐλθὼν ἐν Σπάρτῃ καὶ εὑρὼν τὴν Ἑλένην ἥρπασεν αὐτήν.

Betacode
*pa/rion: o)/noma a)grou=, a)po\ *pa/ridos tou= kai\ *)aleca/ndrou  klhqe/n: e)kei=se ga\r e)/pemyen au)to\n *pri/amos o( path\r tre/fesqai: topri\n de\ e)kalei=to *)/amandros o( to/pos. e)kei= te diatri/yas *)ale/candros tou\s l# e)niautou\s fu/sew/s te decia=s tetuxhkw\s pa=san e)paideu/qh sofi/an *(ellhnikh/n. e)ce/qeto de\ kai\ lo/gon ei)s e)gkw/mion th=s *)afrodi/ths, le/gwn mei/zona au)th\n ei)=nai th=s *)aqhna=s kai\ th=s *(/hras: th\n ga\r *)afrodi/thn th\n e)piqumi/an ei)=pen, e)c h(=s ti/ktetai panta\ ta\ kaka\ a)nqrw/pois. e)nteu=qen fe/retai mu=qos, o(/ti o( *pa/ris e)/krine metacu\ *palla/dos kai\ *(/hras kai\ *)afrodi/ths kai\ th=| *)afrodi/th| de/dwke to\ mh=lon, o(/ e)sti th\n ni/khn. ei)=pe de\ kai\ u(/mnon ei)s au)th/n, to\n lego/menon *kesto/n. tau/thn gra/fousi th\n ai)ti/an gene/sqai tou= pole/mou. suntelesqe/ntwn tw=n l# e)niautw=n, metasteila/menos tou=ton o( path\r e)/pemyen ei)s qusi/as. o(\s e)lqw\n e)n *spa/rth| kai\ eu(rw\n th\n *(ele/nhn h(/rpasen au)th/n.

Notes (4)

  1. This material is paralleled in John Malalas Chronographia V.2 Thurn (67-69) (cf. Jeffreys et al. (45-46)) and John of Antioch fr. 40 Roberto. Adler also cites Georgius Cedrenus Compendium historiarum (216).
  2. 1This Parion is not the (later) polis of that name, which according to Stephanus of Byzantium had a different eponym (Parios, son of Iasion). ↩
  3. 2Differently in the other sources, e.g. Mandro in Cedrenus. ↩
  4. 3Jonathan Toup (1713-1785) corrected this, surely rightly, to 'all fine things', a change of just one consonant in the Greek. ↩
  5. 4Priam (pi 2274). ↩

References


J. Thurn, ed., Ioannis Malalae Chronographia, (Berlin 2000)
E. Jeffreys, M. Jeffreys, and R. Scott, trans., The Chronicle of John Malalas, (Leiden 1986)
I. Bekker, ed., Georgius Cedrenus Joannis Scylitzae ope, vol. 1, (Bonn 1838)

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Revision history5 revisions · last 3 Aug 2026
  1. added bibliography primary note — Ronald Allen
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. expanded nn.1 and 3 — David Whitehead
  5. tweak, status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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