Helen
Publié le 22/02/2012
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Greek Daughter of Zeus and Leda, said
to have been born from an egg, since Zeus came to
Leda and mated with her disguised as a swan. Often
called Helen of Troy, Helen was in fact from Sparta.
She was the sister of the Dioscuri (Castor and
Polydeuces) and of Clytemnestra. She became the
wife of Menelaus, king of Troy. Helen was said to be
the most beautiful woman in the world, a symbol of
womanly beauty. Her abduction by the Trojan prince
Paris was a leading cause of the Trojan War.
There are varying accounts of the end of Helen.
Some say that after the fall of Troy she was reconciled
with her husband, Menelaus. Others say that she
married Deiphobus, that she was hanged by a vengeful
queen, or that she hanged herself from a tree. She
was venerated as a goddess of beauty on the island
of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean under the
name Dendritis (Tree).
It seems likely that Helen was an ancient goddess
of fertility in Laconia, which may account for the
halfhuman, halfdivine stories that feature her.
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