Paris , also known as
Alexander (,
Aléxandros), the son of
Priam and
Hecuba, the king and queen of
Troy, appears in a number of
Greek legends. Probably the best-known was his
elopement with
Helen, queen of
Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the
Trojan War. Later in the war, he fatally wounds
Achilles in the heel with an arrow, as foretold by Achilles’s mother,
Thetis. The name
Paris is probably
Luwian and comparable to
Pari-zitis attested as a
Hittite scribe's name.