Did Helen Of Troy Come From Troy?

No, in fact myth makes Helen the daughter of the Greek god Zeus, who took the form of a swan to rape her mother, a Greek girl called Leda. Helen was married to King Menelaus of Sparta, until she eloped with Paris, a Trojan prince, thus providing a pretext for war between the Greeks and Trojans. The story is that Paris was given a golden apple with instructions to present it "to the fairest" and the three goddesses Hera, Athene and Aphrodite competed to receive it. None hesitated to bribe Paris; Hera offered him power and Athene fame. But Aphrodite promised him a woman as beautiful as herself, and he immediately awarded her the prize. In exchange she gave him Helen, "the face that launched a thousand ships." The pair went to Troy, where the war to recover Helen went on for years. Eventually the Greeks won, Paris was killed and Helen returned to Sparta with Menelaus.

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