How old was Helen when she met Paris?

In most accounts of this event, Helen was quite young; Hellanicus of Lesbos said she was seven years old and Diodorus makes her ten years old.
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How old was Helen when Paris took her?

When Helen was only twelve years old, the Greek hero Theseus (pronounced THEE-see-uhs) kidnapped her and planned to make her his wife. He took her to Attica (pronounced AT-i-kuh) in Greece and locked her away under the care of his mother.
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How old was Helen when she was abducted by Theseus?

Now middle-aged, Theseus chose young Helen, the adopted daughter of King Tyndareus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Polydeuces. The two friends had little trouble abducting Helen, who was just 10 or 11, from Sparta.
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How did Paris meet Helen of Troy?

Seduction or kidnapping by Paris

Paris, a Trojan prince, came to Sparta to claim Helen, in the guise of a supposed diplomatic mission. Before this journey, Paris had been appointed by Zeus to judge the most beautiful goddess; Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite.
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Did Helen sleep with Paris?

That's an ancient Greek region for which Sparta is the dominant city. The epithet “of Troy” is a modern description. It obscures Helen's marriage with King Menelaus of Sparta, Helen's adultery with Prince Paris of Troy, and the brutal violence against men of the Trojan War.
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Troy - Paris starts Trojan War by taking Helen from Sparta



Why did Paris fall in love with Helen?

Paris chose Aphrodite and therefore Helen. Helen was already married to King Menelaus of Sparta (a fact Aphrodite neglected to mention), so Paris had to raid Menelaus's house to steal Helen from him—according to some accounts, she fell in love with Paris and left willingly.
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Who made Helen fall in love with Paris?

Considered the most beautiful woman on earth. Paris was a prince of Troy whom the goddess of love, Aphrodite, had promised the most beautiful woman in the world. It could be said the gods decided the love between Paris and Helen. One day, Helen was at her palace in Sparta with her husband Menelaus.
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Did Paris and Helen have a child?

Another account mentions that Helen and Paris had three kids—Bunomus, Corythus, and Idaeus—but sadly, these boys died when the roof of the family home in Troy collapsed. R.I.P. Helen's boys.
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Did Helen love Paris or Menelaus?

She was married to Menelaus, king of Sparta. Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, fell in love with Helen and abducted her, taking her back to Troy. The Greeks assembled a great army, led by Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, to retrieve Helen. An armada of 1,000 Greek ships sailed across the Aegean Sea to Troy.
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Who Killed Paris of Troy?

Paris himself, soon after, received a fatal wound from an arrow shot by the rival archer Philoctetes. The “judgment of Paris,” Hermes leading Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite to Paris, detail of a red-figure kylix by Hieron, 6th century bc; in the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the National Museums in Berlin.
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How did Helen of Troy look like?

What did Helen look like? Today's movies and paintings make her a blonde, but ancient Greek paintings show her as a brunette. Homer merely tells us she was “white-armed, long robed, and richly tressed,” leaving the rest up to our imagination. Ancient artist's rendering of Helen, with Eros urging her on.
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Did Helen go with Paris willingly?

The story of Helen leaving Menelaus has been portrayed in many ways; from her being kidnapped by Paris, to her willingly deserting her husband in interest of the King of Sparta, Paris himself.
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How did Menelaus win Helen?

When the time came for Helen to marry, she had many suitors. To prevent any violence against her future husband, the Greek warrior Odysseus made his countrymen swear to protect the man she agreed to wed. Helen chose Menelaus, who later became king of Sparta.
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Was Helen of Troy a real person?

Helen of Troy is a mythical figure from Greek mythology and literature, notably Homer's Iliad. She was not a real person.
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Was Trojan horse real?

Actually, historians are pretty much unanimous: the Trojan Horse was just a myth, but Troy was certainly a real place.
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How many husbands did Helen of Troy have?

Laurie Macguire, writing in "Helen of Troy From Homer to Hollywood," lists the following 11 men as husbands of Helen in ancient literature, proceeding from the canonical list in chronological order, to the 5 exceptional ones: Theseus. Menelaus. Paris.
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Why did Helen betray Troy?

Helen's suitors—including Odysseus—came from all parts of Greece, and from among them she chose Menelaus, Agamemnon's younger brother. During an absence of Menelaus, however, Helen fled to Troy with Paris, son of the Trojan king Priam, an act that ultimately led to the Trojan War.
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Who was the ugliest god?

Hephaestus. Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. Sometimes it is said that Hera alone produced him and that he has no father. He is the only god to be physically ugly.
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Who did Achilles love?

Achilles slew Mynes and the brothers of Briseis (children of Briseus), then received her as his war prize. Even though she was a war prize, Achilles and Briseis fell in love with each other, and Achilles may have gone to Troy intending to spend much time in his tent with her, as was portrayed in the movie.
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Did Achilles have a child?

Neoptolemus, in Greek legend, the son of Achilles, the hero of the Greek army at Troy, and of Deïdamia, daughter of King Lycomedes of Scyros; he was sometimes called Pyrrhus, meaning “Red-haired.” In the last year of the Trojan War the Greek hero Odysseus brought him to Troy after the Trojan seer Helenus had declared ...
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How old is Paris in the Iliad?

Paris is (at least) thirty years old the year before the Greeks make landfall in Troas.
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What happened to Hermione daughter of Helen?

She asked Menelaus to kill Andromache, but he refused. As a result, Hermione fled with her cousin Orestes. She married him and had a son named Tisamenus. No further details exist as to what happened to her.
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Did Aphrodite sleep with Paris?

He turned and made again for his man, determined to kill him with the bronze spear. But Aphrodite caught up Paris easily, since she was divine, and wrapped him in a thick mist and set him down again in his own perfumed bedchamber.
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What does Aphrodite do to Helen?

Aphrodite promised him the most beautiful woman in the world. This woman was Helen, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. Aphrodite made Helen fall in love with Paris. The couple ran off together.
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Was Achilles real?

There is no proof that Achilles existed or that any of Homer's other characters did. The long answer is that Homer's Achilles may have been based, at least in part, on a historical character; the same is true of the rest of Homer's characters.
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