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A-Z: General definitions: Helen
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Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy. Paris (a prince of Troy) chose Aphrodite as 'the fairest', since she had bribed him by offering him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world. Unfortunately that woman was Helen, who was already married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. Paris visited Sparta, abducted Helen and took her back to Troy.
Related Topics
Trojan war; Wooden Horse; Menelaus; Paris
Son of Cronos, ruler and chief of the Greek gods, originally a sky-god. (Roman name: Jupiter.)
Wife of king Tyndareos of Sparta, mother of Helen (of Troy), and, according to some versions, Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
Chief city of Laconia in the Greek Peloponnese.
Son of King Priam of Troy.
An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
Greek goddess of love; awarded the Golden Apple of Discord as 'the fairest', by Paris; mother of Eros. (Roman name, Venus.)
Daughter of Zeus and Leda who was famed for her beauty; wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta; she was abducted by Paris and taken back to Troy, which led to the Greeks' siege of Troy.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
A long struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans, recorded in Greek mythology but almost certainly based on real events.
A supposed offering by the Greeks to Athena which they filled with armed men; it was unsuspectingly brought by the Trojans into their city, an act of folly which resulted in their downfall.
King of Sparta, son of Atreus, brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.
Son of King Priam of Troy.
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