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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1547151" data-attributes="member: 198">It's not really the kind of break (or as much of a break) from the source material that you think it is. Remember that [spoiler]Paris is not actually slain in the Iliad, because the epic ends after the funeral of Hector. In most of the other texts which do deal with the end of the war, Paris is slain by an arrow from the bow of Hercules, which is brought to the war by Hercules' former companion Philoctetes (long story). But there are also certain traditions that Paris is only wounded and manages to fly to Mount Ida, where his festering wound is healed by his original wife Oenone, whom he had deserted. Admittedly Helen doesn't escape with Helen in this version, but in another version she isn't even in the war, having been transported to King Proteus of Egypt on Zeus' orders, while Paris carried off a phantom version created by Hera, ensuring that the Greeks would attack Troy. [/spoiler] So there are a lot more versions of the source material both in letter and spirit, than is commonly known.</blockquote>