Helen, Queen of Hearts (and Sparta)

The fairest woman in the world was a queen, and of godly parentage. The biological daughter of Zeus and Leda, Helen was the most beautiful woman in all the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Naturally, all of the men from miles around came to ask her earthly father, King Tyndareus, for Helen’s hand in marriage. So many suitors were there that Tyndareus feared his kingdom would be split in civil war if he chose the wrong husband for his “daughter”. He contrived a vow to be taken by all of the many suitors. If Helen or her husband came to distress, all of the other suitors were to come to their aid. All of the suitors agreed, and Tyndareus chose Menelaus to be Helen’s husband. He also made him King of Sparta.

Helen As Aphrodite had promised Paris the fairest woman in the world, Helen was fated to become Paris’s lover. One small problem with that arrangement was her marriage to King Menelaus. Paris journeyed by sea to Helen’s home in Sparta, and while Menelaus was away, he took her to Troy. The abduction of Helen brought the wrath of Greece down upon Troy’s head, and the city would pay dearly for Paris’s romancing of a Greek queen.
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