Helen of Greek mythology

Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and grew up in the palace of her stepfather, King Tyndarius of Sparta. Theseus and Peritous went on an expedition to Sparta, where they saw her dancing in the Temple of Artemis. Neither of them could resist the lust of love~ fire, so they boldly broke into the temple, snatched her, and took her to Tegea in Argadia. Here they draw lots to decide who Helen belongs to. The two made an appointment, and those who won the lottery must help those who did not win the lottery to grab a beautiful woman. Theseus won the lot, and he took Helen to Avedna, in the Attica region, where her mother, Etra, cared for her and had a friend protect her. Then, he and his friends plan to go on a great and amazing adventure. After losing Helen, Peritous decided to take Persephone, the wife of Hades, from the underworld and possess her for comfort. But their plan failed completely. The two were permanently detained by Hades in the underworld. Hercules tried to rescue both of them, but only Theseus was rescued.

While Theseus was imprisoned in Hades' dungeon, Helen's two brothers, Castor and Polydiucus, came to Athens. They politely demanded the return of Helen. But the Athenians said that the young princess was not in Athens, and they did not know where Theseus hid her. The brothers were furious and threatened to use force. The Athenians were terrified, and one of them, Acatmose, knew Theseus' secrets and told them that Helen was hiding in Aphdna. Kastor and Polydius immediately laid siege to the city, which they soon captured.

At the same time, something happened in the city of Athens that was unfavorable to Theseus. Eric Thous's grandson, Menas Theus, established himself as the leader of the people. He wanted to usurp the throne, so he bewitched the nobles in the city, saying that the king let them move from the countryside to the city, in fact, controlling them and enslaving them. He told the freedmen that they had abandoned the temples and gods of the country, and were no longer dependent on the local nobles, large and small, in favor of a foreign tyrant, in order to stir up the discontent of the people against the king. Now that Aphdena had been captured by Tyndareus' people, and the Athenians were terrified, Menastheus took advantage of the panic of the people and persuaded the inhabitants to open the gates to Tyndareus's two sons and greet them amicably, for Castor and Polydius were only against Theseus taking their sister. The facts also prove what Menas Thos said. Although the foreign soldiers rushed in through the open gates and took control of all the areas of the city, they did not harm a single person. They rescued Helen and left Athens and returned to their homeland, escorted by the citizens.

As Helen grew up to be more and more charming, attracting a steady stream of suitors, fearing that the final selection of a son-in-law would offend so many suitors, her father, King Tyndarius of Sparta, made all suitors swear in public that they would form an alliance with the bridegroom who was fortunate enough to be chosen in the future, and to oppose any suitor who was dissatisfied with the marriage and tried to harm the king. Later, he chose Menelaus. Menelaos was the brother of Agamemnon, the king of the Argosians, and after he married Helen, he also inherited the throne of Sparta, and Helen also bore Menelaos a daughter named Hermione.

When the Trojan king Priam entrusted a task to Prince Paris to go to Salamis to fetch the king's sister, Hesione, the female monarch of Saramis, Paris led a large army to Sisera. At the instigation of Aphrodite, Paris sailed to Sparta to find Helen, but another son of Priam, the prophet Helenus, warned Paris, but he ignored it. He came to the shores of Laconia, and went ashore with his friend Aeneas, where he visited Menelaus, king of Sparta, at a feast where Paris and Helen had become affectionate. A few days later, Menelaos said that he was going to Crete, and before leaving, he told Helen to greet his guests. As soon as Menelaos left, Paris instigated Helen to leave her husband and go with him to Troy, where Helen forsaken everything for love, including her daughter Hermione. On the way back, Nereus, the god of the sea, abruptly stopped the ship and told them that they would pay the price, but Aphrodite comforted them, and they returned to Troy three days later. In order to recapture Helen, the Greek army crossed the strait and tightly surrounded the city of Troy.

One day, as Helen quietly weaved her experiences into a golden blanket, she was asked to watch the duel between Menelaos and Paris in the city of Troy. Menelaos was determined to kill Paris. Sitting next to King Piam, she told the king about the head of the Greek side. When she saw the figure of her ex-husband under the city walls, tears of love filled her eyes. After Paris was defeated and fled the battlefield, she felt both loving and despised. She encourages Highgate and Paris to return to the battlefield and sincerely mourns the death of the true hero, Highgate. But when Odysseus and Diomedes disguised themselves and later stole the idol of Athena, she did everything she could to help them. After Paris was killed in battle, she became the wife of another son of King Piam.

Meanwhile, Menelaos anxiously searched for Helen in the ruined Trojan Palace. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, made Helen more beautiful. As a result, when Menelaos finally found Helen shivering in a corner, he was extremely reluctant to stab his sword into her charming face. And he was secretly rejoicing in regaining Helen, who had followed Menelaos through the ruins of Troy, and she was deeply ashamed of her uncleanness. The thought of the fate she was about to suffer in the Greek military camp made her tremble.

Her beauty saved her again. No one can bear to stab a sword into the body of a mesmerizing, charming woman. In Menelaos' tent, Helen knelt at the feet of the Spartan king and begged for forgiveness. Deeply moved by what he saw, Menelaos lifted Helen up and made her forget all about the past. When Menelaos picked her up, Helen's eyes welled with tears of happiness and sorrow. The two of them fell in love as before, and disappeared together in the far west.