Almost an afterthought in the retelling. He gets named once, when Helen walks into the Spartan hall and the narration places her: years ago she had left with Paris, a young Trojan prince. Her husband followed her across the sea to burn Troy into dust. He is the inciting incident standing offstage. The retelling does not give him a face or a death scene. He is the catalyst whose name we say as we move past him. The war he started swallowed Achilles, Ajax, Patroclus, and ten years of every Greek man’s life, and he himself is barely there.
Paris
The young Trojan prince Helen left Sparta with. The reason a thousand ships sailed. Mentioned in passing when she comes down the stairs.