Helen of Troy to the underworld, the domain of Hades, to kidnap Persephone. Hades pretended to offer them hospitality and set a feast, but, as soon as the pair sat down, snakes coiled around their feet and held them there. Helen's abduction caused an invasion of Athens by Castor and Pollux, who captured Aethra in revenge, and returned their sister to Sparta. In most accounts of this event, Helen was quite young; Hellanicus of Lesbos said she was seven years old and Diodorus makes her ten years old. On the other hand, Stesichorus said that Iphigenia was the daughter of Theseus and Helen,
The Private Life of Helen of Troy June 1928, and was the first person to be posthumously nominated for an Academy Award. That same year, the first "talkie", "The Jazz Singer", received an honorary award for introducing sound to film, and the category for which "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" was nominated was dropped by the second Academy Awards. Two sections from the beginning and end, running about 27–30 minutes in total, are reportedly all that survive of "The Private Life of Helen of Troy"; they are preserved by the British Film Institute. The Private Life of Helen of Troy The Private Life of Helen