Helen (Helene) or Helen of Troy, wife of Menelaos. According to Greek mythology, she is the most beautiful woman in the world who caused the Trojan war. According to various legends, she is the only daughter of Zeus from a mortal woman. She is a girl born from the escapade of the Spartan queen Leda and the god Zeus dressed as a swan. And it is said that he owes Zeus and Aphrodite to escape from Troy. He is one of the main heroes of the Iliad and cycle poems.
GREEK HELEN
As a child, Helen was kidnapped by the Greek king Theseus, but since she was not old enough to marry, the king sent her to Aphidnae, next to her mother Aethra. But Helen is rescued by her older brother, Dioscuri, who also captures Aethra. When Helen is old enough to marry, all powerful and powerful men in Greece follow her, but considering the troubles of heartbroken groom-to-be, her father, King Tyndareos, listens to Odysseus, and everyone who comes to want her daughter swears to protect her marriage and happiness, no matter whom Helen chooses. Later, the king decides on Menelaus, and Helen marries him and gives him a daughter named Hermione.
However, after a ten-year happy marriage, Helen escapes one night with the Trojan prince Paris. Upon this, her husband Menelaus gathers the other bridegroom candidates by reminding them of their oaths, and the largest Greek army in history goes to Troy for the war that will be the subject of legends under the command of Agamemnon.
It emerged from an egg (a golden swan egg) born by Tyndareos’ wife Leda and was soon recognized by everyone for its beauty. When Theseus kidnapped Heleni to Athens, Kastor and Polydeukes brought his brothers Kastor and Polydeukes to Sparta, all the heroes of Greece wanted to marry him (including Akhilleus) Fearing the anger of the rejected groom candidates, Tyndareos feared that some of those who could not marry Helen would fight Helen’s future wife. stipulated that all candidates take an oath of unity.
TRUVALI HELEN
The young girl married Menelaos. However, taking advantage of the fact that everyone was drunk at the feast in honor of Paris Menelaos, who was a guest in Sparta, the son of the Trojan King Priamos, Helen kidnapped. Thereupon, Menelaos asks his old rivals to take their oaths. Thus began the Trojan War. (The main reason for the war was that the Greeks wanted to occupy this important city on the Asian coast.) After the death of Paris, Helen was married (by Priam) to her brother Deiphobos and left her in the hands of angry Greeks while Troy was being plundered. Menelaos took Helen again, brought her to Sparta.
“who is Helen”
When Helen became widow, she was expelled by Menelaos’ out-of-wed children Megapenthes and Nikostratos, and she had to take refuge in Rhodes. There, Polykso of Argos, wife of King Tlepolemos, had Helen killed. According to another belief, Zeus (Helen’s real father) elevated the deceased Helen to the rank of gods and made her a star. According to some legends, they would live forever with Menelaos on Happy Island. Helen was worshiped in many countries. It is rumored that the last words to come out of his mouth were Paris, Father (Zeus as Father). It was an example of beauty for the Greeks.
“the most beautiful woman in history”
She is the first woman to wear trousers in history. (He wore the pants of Paris.)
It is said to have golden hair and emerald green eyes.
He is also the (only) aunt of Elektra, who named the psychological state Freud called the Electra Complex.
Although originally from Spartan, he always wanted to be called Helen of Troy. And today he is known as Helen of Troy.
He is 9 years older than Paris. He only has one child, Hermione.
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