Greek mythology
Helen
The face that launched a thousand ships
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Siblings
- Pollux · Clytemnestra · Castor
- Group
- Mortal · Ruler · Queen · Love · Demigods
- Appears in
- Leda and the Swan · Judgment of Paris · Fall of Troy · House of Atreus
- Places
- Troy
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Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world, daughter of Zeus and queen of Sparta, whose flight to Troy with Paris ignites the ten-year war. Whether stolen or willing, she becomes the prize over which Greece and Troy bleed. After the city falls she returns to Menelaus, her beauty undimmed and her guilt forever debated.
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Leda and the Swan
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- Who is Helen?
- Helen is the most beautiful woman in the world, daughter of Zeus and queen of Sparta, whose flight to Troy with Paris ignites the ten-year war. Whether stolen or willing, she becomes the prize over which Greece and Troy bleed.
- Which mythology does Helen belong to?
- Helen belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Helen appear in?
- Helen appears in Leda and the Swan, Judgment of Paris, Fall of Troy, House of Atreus, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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