To encourage Paris to award her the apple, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each offered him bribes. Hera offered him power and all the kingdoms of Asia; Athena offered him victory in battle, beauty, and wisdom; but he chose Aphrodite's present, Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Unfortunately, Helen was married to a Spartan, and Paris' abduction of Helen to Troy (according to some versions of the myth, she went willingly) caused the Trojan War. As in the narrative of the Fall, a woman's sexual attractiveness--identified with an apple--has a cataclysmic effect.