prince paris of troy abducted helen and led her to troy.
prince paris of troy abducted helen and led her to troy.
who abducted helen and led her to troy?
prince paris of troy
in greek mythology, helen of troy (ancient greek: ἑλένη "helénē", ), also known as helen of sparta, was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. she was married to menelaus, who by that marriage became king of sparta, but was abducted by prince paris of troy after the goddess aphrodite promised her to him in the judgement of paris. this resulted in the trojan war when the achaeans set out to reclaim her. she was believed to have been the daughter of zeus and leda, and was the sister of clytemnestra, castor and polydeuces, philonoe, phoebe and timandra.
helen of troy
there are two versions of aphrodite's origin story in ancient greece, in one version aphrodite's mother was dione and her father was zeus. she only had halfsiblings. in the other version she was born from the foam that arose when ouranos' genitals fell into the sea after they were cut off. she was married to hephaestus, the god of fire, metalworking, stone masonry, forges and the art of sculpture. she was also a lover of ares, the god of war. she was said to have had nine children, anteros, eros, deimos, phobos, harmonia, eryx, hermaphroditus, priapus, and aeneas. the greeks regarded this interpretation of the goddess—a love goddess who was also an armored warrior—as somewhat strange and paradoxical. in the greek mythology, however, aphrodite was considered a catalyst of the trojan war. having chosen paris, prince of troy, to judge which of the goddesses hera, athena, or she was the loveliest, each offered him favor. aphrodite's gift was the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, helen of sparta, who was married to menelaus, king of mycenaean sparta. paris declared aphrodite the loveliest. in some versions of the story, paris abducted helen, while in other versions she was a willing participant, but by all accounts it was love which caused the war.
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