Helen of Troy
Helen, the daughter of Zeus
and the queen of Sparta, was the most beautiful young woman in the world.
She lived in Sparta with
her mother and her father, the king of Sparta, and her half-sister, Clytemnestra. All the young men wanted
to marry her. Her stepfather
(the king of Sparta) was afraid that if he said she could marry one
of the suitors (the men who wanted to marry her), all the other suitors
would fight him, and there would be a big war. (Yes, Helen was that
beautiful. It's a story).
So Helen's stepfather had an idea. He got all the suitors together in
one place and made them all swear to protect Helen and her marriage,
whichever one of them got to marry her. So they all swore. Then the
king (Helen's stepfather) had the suitors all compete in athletic
games. The one who won was Menelaus,
and so he married Helen.
Helen's sister Clytemnestra married Agamemnon,
king of Mycenae, Menelaus'
older brother.
More on Helen and the Trojan War
Menelaus
Agamemnon
History of Sparta
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