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Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta (a fact Aphrodite neglected to mention), so Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him—according to some accounts, she fell in love with Paris and left willingly. The Spartans' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War.
In Guido Reni's painting (1631, Louvre, Paris), however, Paris holds Helen by her wrist (as he already did in Genga's painting shown here on the left), and they leave together for Troia. The Rape of Helen by Tintoretto (1578–1579, Museo del Prado , Madrid ); Helen languishes in the corner of a land-sea battle scene.
Euripides, Helen 20 ff (trans Coleridge) Euripides, Helen 675 ff; Euripides, Andromache 274 ff (trans. Coleridge) Gorgias, The Encomium on Helen 5 (The Classical Weekly Feb. 15, 1913 trans. Van Hook p. 123) (Greek philosophy C5th BC) P. Oxy. 663, Cratinus, Argument of Cratinus' Dionysalexandrus 2. 12-9 (trans. Grenfell & Hunt) (Greek poetry ...
After the death of Paris, Deiphobus was given Helen of Troy as a bride for his deeds in the war, defeating the bid of his other brother, Helenus. Euripides , in The Trojan Women , states that the marriage was by force and that Helen felt “bitterly enslaved.”
Menelaus was a descendant of Pelops son of Tantalus. [3] He was the younger brother of Agamemnon, and the husband of Helen of Troy.According to the usual version of the story, followed by the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and Aerope, daughter of the Cretan king Catreus. [4]
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She was just nine years old when Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, arrived to abduct her mother, Helen. During the war, Menelaus promised her to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus. [4] After the war ended, he sent Hermione away to the city of Phthia (the home of Peleus and Achilles), where Neoptolemus was staying.
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