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A-Z: General definitions: Nemesis
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The goddess of retribution. She represented the anger felt by the gods with anybody who has too much, for instance, wealth, pride or happiness, or with somebody who has acted unnaturally. Some stories name her as the mother of Helen of Troy instead of Leda.
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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.
An ancient city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont; it was sacked by the Greeks after a ten-year siege.
Wife of king Tyndareos of Sparta, mother of Helen (of Troy), and, according to some versions, Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra.
The beautiful youth who spurned all suitors, and then fell in love with his own reflection. The narcissus is the flower which grew on the spot on which Narcissus died.
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.
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