Helen of Troy

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Trojan War figure character in Greek mythology mythological figure

Helen of Troy is a legendary figure from Greek mythology renowned as the most beautiful woman in the world, whose abduction by Paris sparked the Trojan War.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Helen	6
Queen of Sparta	2
Helen of Sparta (in some traditions)	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Trojan War figure ⓘ character in Greek mythology ⓘ mythological figure ⓘ
abductedBy	Paris ⓘ
abductedFrom	Sparta ⓘ
abductionMotif	elopement with Paris ⓘ
appearsIn	Cypria ⓘ Homer's Iliad ⓘ surface form: Iliad Little Iliad ⓘ Homer's Odyssey ⓘ surface form: Odyssey Oresteia (indirectly) ⓘ
associatedEvent	Trojan War ⓘ
associatedWith	Sparta ⓘ Troy ⓘ
beautyComparedTo	goddesses ⓘ
causeOf	Trojan War ⓘ surface form: Trojan War (in myth)
child	Hermione ⓘ Megapenthes (mythological) ⓘ Nicostratus ⓘ Pleistrus ⓘ
culture	Ancient Greek ⓘ
epithet	Helen ⓘ surface form: Helen of Sparta the most beautiful woman in the world ⓘ
father	Zeus ⓘ
gender	female ⓘ
givenName	Helen ⓘ
husband	Menelaus ⓘ
influenced	Western art ⓘ Western drama ⓘ Western literature ⓘ
lover	Paris ⓘ
maritalStatusBeforeAbduction	married to Menelaus ⓘ
mother	Leda ⓘ
mythicCycle	Trojan cycle ⓘ surface form: Trojan Cycle
mythologicalTradition	Greek mythology ⓘ
notableFor	extraordinary beauty ⓘ role in causing the Trojan War ⓘ
origin	Sparta ⓘ
portrayedAs	cause of the Trojan War ⓘ
sibling	Castor ⓘ Clytemnestra ⓘ Phoebe ⓘ Pollux ⓘ Timandra ⓘ
spouse	Menelaus ⓘ Paris ⓘ
symbolOf	destructive power of desire ⓘ idealized beauty ⓘ
title	Helen of Troy self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Queen of Sparta

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Theseus → abducted → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helen of Sparta (in some traditions)

Zeus → child → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Leda → childrenWithTyndareus → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Leda → childrenWithZeus → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Nell → etymologicalRootVia → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helen

The Penelopiad → featuresCharacter → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Leda → gaveBirthTo → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Helen Pitts Douglass → givenName → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helen

Hesiodic Catalogue of Women → includesCharacter → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Homer's Iliad → mainCharacter → Helen of Troy ⓘ

subject surface form: Iliad

Telemachus → meets → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Leda → motherOf → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Eleanor → possibleOriginFrom → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helen

Nell → relatedName → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helen

Nell → shortFormOf → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helen

Apollo → sibling → Helen of Troy ⓘ

Helen of Troy → title → Helen of Troy self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Queen of Sparta

Leda → title → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Queen of Sparta

Nell → usedAsDiminutiveOf → Helen of Troy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Helen