In Greek mythology, Oenone (Ancient Greek: Οἰνώνη) was a mountain nymph of Mount Ida in Phrygia and the first wife of Paris of Troy, whom he abandoned for Helen. Daughter of the river-god Cebren (or, less often, Oeneus), she learned prophecy from Rhea, bore Paris a son Corythus, and later refused to heal the arrow-wounded Paris — then killed herself in remorse. This atlas id distinguishes her from the island later named Aegina, once also called Oenone.
Adapted from Wikipedia, "Oenone" · CC BY-SA 4.0
I.Paris on Ida
Oenone lives as a nymph on Ida, the mountain of Cybele and Rhea, from whom she learns prophecy. Exposed in infancy because of the prophecy that he would ruin Troy, Paris is raised as a shepherd and falls in love with her. They marry; she bears Corythus. She warns that though his love is true now, he will abandon her and bring ruin on his house — warnings he dismisses.
When Paris is restored to Priam's household and sails for Helen, her prophecy is fulfilled. Later variants have her send Corythus to guide the Greeks to Troy, to estrange Helen, or to reveal the oracles needed to take the city; Paris, not recognising his son, kills him.
II.Death of Paris
The fullest surviving narrative is Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica Book 10. Mortally wounded by Philoctetes' bow, Paris begs Oenone to heal him with her herbal arts; she refuses in scorn and bids him return to Helen's bed. He dies on the lower slopes of Ida. Overcome with remorse, she throws herself onto his funeral pyre. Apollodorus has her hang herself; Lycophron imagines her leaping from Troy's walls; Parthenius has her jest that Helen should heal him, then arrive too late and take her own life. Ovid's Heroides 5 is her reproachful letter to Paris.
III.Later literature
The abandonment and death inspired Thomas Heywood's Oenone and Paris, William Morris's "The Death of Paris," Lawrence Binyon's Paris and Oenone, and Tennyson's "Oenone" and "The Death of Oenone." Racine's Phèdre reuses the name for Phaedra's nurse.