The Judgement of Paris

Euripides: The Trojan Women
Hecabe answers Helen and denies the myth altogether.

"To begin then, I will vindicate the goddesses,
And show how she has slandered them. I don't believe
Gods to be capable of such folly, as that Hera
Should bargain away Argos to barbarians,
Or virgin Pallas see her Athens subjected
To Troy. Why should they indulge in such frivolity
As travelling to Mount Ida for a beauty match?
What reason could the goddess Hera have for being
So anxious about beauty? Did she want to get
A husband of higher rank than Zeus? Or was Athene,
Who begged her father for perpetual maidenhood,
Disdaining love - now husband-hunting among the gods?
To cloak your own guilt, you dress up the gods as fools;
But only fools would listen to you. And Aphrodite,
You say - what could be more absurd? - went with my son
To Menelaus' palace! Could she not have brought
You, and your town of Amyclae, from Peloponnese
To Ilion, without stirring from her seat in heaven?
No; Paris was an extremely handsome man - one look,
And your appetite became your Aphrodite."