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    Helen of Troy was the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta who was abducted by Paris of Troy, sparking the Trojan War. When Menelaus discovered Helen was missing, he called upon the other Greek suitors who had sworn to defend Helen's husband if needed. This led to a massive Greek fleet gathering to lay siege to Troy for ten years in an attempt to reclaim Helen. The war ended when the Greeks used the Trojan Horse ruse to enter the city and burn it to the ground.

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    Helen of Troy was the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta who was abducted by Paris of Troy, sparking the Trojan War. When Menelaus discovered Helen was missing, he called upon the other Greek suitors who had sworn to defend Helen's husband if needed. This led to a massive Greek fleet gathering to lay siege to Troy for ten years in an attempt to reclaim Helen. The war ended when the Greeks used the Trojan Horse ruse to enter the city and burn it to the ground.

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    Helen of Troy was the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta who was abducted by Paris of Troy, sparking the Trojan War. When Menelaus discovered Helen was missing, he called upon the other Greek suitors who had sworn to defend Helen's husband if needed. This led to a massive Greek fleet gathering to lay siege to Troy for ten years in an attempt to reclaim Helen. The war ended when the Greeks used the Trojan Horse ruse to enter the city and burn it to the ground.

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    Helen of Troy was the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta who was abducted by Paris of Troy, sparking the Trojan War. When Menelaus discovered Helen was missing, he called upon the other Greek suitors who had sworn to defend Helen's husband if needed. This led to a massive Greek fleet gathering to lay siege to Troy for ten years in an attempt to reclaim Helen. The war ended when the Greeks used the Trojan Horse ruse to enter the city and burn it to the ground.

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    HELEN OF TROY

    In Greek mythology, Helen, known as Helen of Troy (and earlier Helen of Sparta),
    was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or Nemesis), wife of King Menelaus and
    sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought
    about the Trojan War who came to Sparta to claim Helen, in the guise as a
    supposed diplomatic mission. Helen was described by Dr. Faustus in Christopher
    Marlowe's eponymous play as having "the face that launched a thousand ships."

    When Menelaus discovered that his wife was missing, he called upon all the other
    suitors to fulfil their oaths (to defend the chosen husband of Helen against whoever
    should quarrel with him), thus beginning the Trojan War. The Greek fleet gathered
    in Aulis, but the ships could not sail, because there was no wind. Artemis was
    enraged with a sacrilegious act of the Greeks, and only the sacrifice of
    Agamemnon's daughter, Iphigenia, could appease her. Iphigenia's mother and
    Helen's sister, begs her husband to reconsider his decision, and calls Helen a
    "wicked woman". For Clytemnestra, sacrificing Iphigenia for Helen's sake, "it is
    buying what we most detest with what we hold most dear".

    Homer paints a lonely picture of Helen in Troy. She is filled with self-distaste and
    regret for what she has caused; by the end of the war, the Trojans have come to
    hate her. When Hector dies, she is the third mourner at his funeral, and she says
    that, of all the Trojans, Hector and Priam alone were always kind to her.

    TROGEN WAR

    In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the
    Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the
    king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology
    and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad and the
    Odyssey by Homer. "The Iliad" relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy,
    while the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Achaean
    leaders. Other parts of the war were told in a cycle of epic poems, which has only
    survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy
    and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets like Virgil and Ovid.

    The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and
    Aphrodite after Eris, the goddess of strife and discord, gave them a golden apple,
    sometimes known as the Apple of Discord, marked "for the fairest". Paris had been
    appointed by Zeus to proclaim the most beautiful goddess. Zeus sent the
    goddesses to Paris, who judged that Aphrodite, as the "fairest", should receive the
    apple. In exchange, Aphrodite made Helen, the most beautiful of all women and
    wife of Menelaus, fall in love with Paris, who took her to Troy. Agamemnon, king of
    Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of
    Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris' insult.
    After the deaths of many heroes, including the Achaeans Achilles and Ajax, and
    the Trojans Hector and Paris, the city fell to the ruse of the Trojan Horse. The
    Achaeans slaughtered the Trojans (except for some of the women and children
    whom they kept or sold as slaves) and desecrated the temples, thus earning the
    gods' wrath. Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded
    colonies in distant shores. The Romans later traced their origin to Aeneas, one of
    the Trojans, who was said to have led the surviving Trojans to modern day Italy.

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