who was helen of troy?

Question

did she really exist

Answer 1

She did really exist, but we don't know for sure if there was a Trojan war. She was married away to Menelaus, and the myth goes that Aphrodite made her fall in love with prince Paris, but really she might just have fancied him since she was married away at a young age to an older man. Paris had chosen Aphrodite as the most beautiful Goddess, in return she would give him the most beautiful human (woman). The myth goes her father was Zeus, but she is not immortal. During the Trojan war there was also a war between the gods. Apollo and Artemis was on the Trojan sides, I think Zeus was as well, but Here (his wife..he cheated on her loads) was on the Greeks side.

Answer 2

I disagree with the one who said that you should watch Troy to find the answer. Troy is a film, not a documentary and there are a lot of inaccuracies and false facts in there!
Helen of troy was the wife of menelaus (who by the way did not die as Troy suggests). The myth of Iliad accuses her as the cause of the trojan war. The truth is that the real reasons were political as every other war. Helen of troy did exist.

Answer 3

Helen was exactly what all the above said, but to say that she really existed that's a longshot. That's the character of mythology there's always a thread of truth among the lines but you don't know exactly where. One thing is for sure, whether Helen existed or not, the war didn't really happen over her, she was just a pretence that gave the opportunity to the Greeks to justify an expansive war...

Answer 4

A woman called Helen who came from Troy!

Answer 5

NikGeo+Lassie's answers=right answer.

It's also worth mentioning that Helen of Troy's sister was Clytemnestra, who married Menelaus' brother Agamemnon.

And it's true, Helen was kidnapped by Theseus when she was younger. I forget how she got back.

Anyway, if you insert everything everyone already said, we can skip to the end of the war where Paris dies and Helen is reunited with Menelaus. (I should also add that Paris had a girlfriend named Oenone when this all started.) Helen and Menelaus went home and not much is said afterward.except that they had a daughter whose name escapes me at the moment. And I think they're mentioned in the Aeneid when Aeneas is on his way to Italy.

Answer 6

In Greek mythology, Helen (Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē), better known as Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda and the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta. She was the sister of Castor, Polydeuces, and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.

Answer 7

"Helen of Sparta was perhaps the most inspired character in all literature, ancient or modern. A whole war, one which lasted for ten years, was fought over her. Not only that, nearly all the myths of the heroic age were threaded together in such a way that this most idealized of all wars was the culmination of various exploits, including the Argonaut, the Theban wars, and the Calydonian boar hunt. It is as though this event was in the destiny of every dynasty formed from the beginning of things."

Answer 8

the only actual answer are the words spoken with the aid of the Goddess Aphrodite in the process the judgment of Paris. She reported that if Paris chosen her to acquire the golden apple, she might reward him with "the main appropriate mortal female interior the international." that saying with regard to the thousand ships isn't area of the Greek Myths. Christopher Marlowe, in scientific professional Faustus (variously dated between 1590 and 1604), touching on Helen of Troy, or as Marlowe had it 'Helen of Greece': The sentence: :became this the face that released 1000 ships."

Answer 9

well they arent relly sure if she really existed since they just recently found out that Troy existed. and if she did then well i guess the whole story is true. she went to troy lots of ships came to "rescue" her then after awile they build a big wooden horse to go into troy and snuck out at night and destroyed the entire city.

Answer 10

She was a queen in a city-state in greece, and fell in love with paris, prince of troy. She stowed away with paris to troy and her ex-husband went together with his brother to go to war with troy. Her ex died under hector, prince of troy and paris's brother. & the greeks won the war.