Helen

in cla ic fable, the daughter of Jupiter and Leda, of Jupiter _” and Nemesis, or of the King Tynd are us and Leda, his wife, according to the various statements of the poets, was the most beautiful woman of her time, and married Menelaus, King of Sparta. Her guilty elopement with Paris, one of the sons of Priam, King of Troy, who had been sent to Lace demon as amba ador, Jed to the Trojan War, and the _ destruction, after 10 years’ siege, of Troy. On the death of Paris she married his brother Deiphobus, and when the city was at last sacked, returned to Sparta with her husband Menelaus. Being banished from Sparta on the death of Menelaus, she retired to the island of Rhodes papers having excited the envy of ‘olyxo, the queen of the isle, she was tied to a tree and strangled.