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Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē [a]), also known as Helen of Troy, [2] [3] Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, [4] and in Latin as Helena, [5] was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.
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.
This was Helen of Sparta, wife of the Greek king Menelaus. Paris accepted Aphrodite's bribe and awarded the apple to her, receiving Helen as well as the enmity of the Greeks and especially of Hera. The Greeks' expedition to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War.
The judgement of Paris earned him the ire of both Hera and Athena, and when Helen left her husband, Menelaus, the Spartan king, for Paris of Troy, Menelaus called upon all the kings and princes of Greece to wage war upon Troy. The Burning of Troy (1759–1762), oil painting by Johann Georg Trautmann
After her marriage to Tlepolemus and his subsequent exile due to the murder of Licymnius, Polyxo followed him to the island of Rhodes, where they had a son. [2] [3] But Tlepolemus had been one of the suitors of Helen of Troy, [4] so when Paris took her with him to Troy, Tlepolemus left to join the expendition that would bring Helen back to her husband Menelaus. [3]
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]
Drawing of a fresco depicting Paris, Eros, and Oenone from the House of the Labyrinth, Pompeii. Paris, son of the king Priam and the queen Hecuba, fell in love with Oenone when he was a shepherd on the slopes of Mount Ida, having been exposed in infancy (owing to a prophecy that he would be the means of the destruction of the city of Troy) and rescued by the herdsman Agelaus.
It shows Helen of Troy (far left) being persuaded by Venus (centre) to fall in love with Paris (right), abandon her husband Menelaus and go with Paris to Troy, thus triggering the Trojan War. Venus' son Cupid holds Paris's hand. [1] The painting depicts Venus sitting to Helen's left, while persuading her to love Paris.