Other accounts have a treacherous Helen who simulated Bacchic rites and rejoiced in the carnage she caused. The legends of Helen during her time in Troy are contradictory: Homer depicts her ambivalently, both regretful of her choice and sly in her attempts to redeem her public image. When she married Menelaus she was still very young whether her subsequent departure with Paris was an abduction or an elopement is ambiguous (probably deliberately so).
The obligations of the oath precipitated the Trojan War. All of her suitors were required to swear an oath (known as the Oath of Tyndareus) promising to provide military assistance to the winning suitor, if Helen were ever stolen from him. A competition between her suitors for her hand in marriage saw Menelaus emerge victorious. In her youth, she was abducted by Theseus. Her story reappears in Book II of Virgil's Aeneid. She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta "who became by her the father of Hermione, and, according to others, of Nicostratus also." Her abduction by Paris of Troy was the most immediate cause of the Trojan War.Įlements of her putative biography come from classical authors such as Aristophanes, Cicero, Euripides, and Homer (in both the Iliad and the Odyssey). She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe and Timandra. Helen of Troy, Helen, Helena, ( Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē, pronounced ) also known as beautiful Helen, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.
Clytemnestra, Castor, Timandra, Phoebe, Philonoe (half-siblings)Īethiolas, Hermione, Nicostratus, Megapenthes, Pleisthenes (by Menelaos)īunomus, Aganus, Idaeus, Helen (by Paris)
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