Paris, aka Alexander, the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, with a bow. Probably the best known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War( 13th or 12th century BCE). Later in the war, he fatally wounds Achilles in the heel with an arrow as foretold by Achilles’s mother, Thetis.

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