Helen Daughter of Zeus and Leda. Helen
appears in Euripides’ Helen, Orestes, and
Trojan Women. Addition classical resources are
Apollodorus’s Library (three.10.7–3.11.1, Epitome
three.1–6, three.28, 5.Eight–22, 6.29), Herodotus’s Histories
(2,112–2,120), Homer’s Iliad (3.121–447,
6.313–369, 24.761–776) and Odyssey (four.81–85,
a hundred and twenty–305, 15.56–181), Pausanias’s Description of
Greece (1.35.1, 2.22.6), Theocritus’s Idylls (18),
and Virgil’s Aeneid (2.567–603). Zeus seduced
Leda in the shape of a swan, and Helen changed into
subsequently born from an egg. Helen’s mortal
father changed into Tyndareus, the husband of Leda.
Her brothers have been the Dioscuri, and her sister
was Clytaemnestra.
While Paris is the most famous abductor
of Helen, there ma
