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,
Helen of Troy character Gradiva as the embodiments of Helen. He dedicates his autobiography "Diary of a Genius" to "my genius Gala Gradiva, Helen of Troy, Saint Helen, Gala Galatea Placida." John Erskine's 1925 bestselling novel "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" portrayed Helen as a "sensible, bourgeois heroine", but the 1927 silent film of the same name, directed by Alexander Korda, transformed Helen into "a shopaholic fashion maven". In 1928, Richard Strauss wrote the German opera "Die ägyptische Helena" ("The Egyptian Helena"), which is the story of Helen and Menelaus's troubles when they are marooned on a mythical island. The 1951