Kazdağı

Who, do you suppose, judged history’s first beauty contest? According to mythology, this difficult task fell to a young shepherd tending his flocks on the slopes of Kazdağı, known in antiquity as Mount Ida: Paris, son of King Priam of Troy… Asked to choose who should have a golden apple inscribed “to the fairest”, Paris found himself caught between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Had he known the price of his decision would be a war lasting ten years, he would surely have politely excused himself from the jury…