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Lineage	?
Sex	Female
Full name (at birth)	Henuttaten ?
Other last names	Helen of Menelaia
Other given names	Henuttaten, Henuttaneb, Hilaeira
Parents ♂ Tyndareus [?] ♂ w Зевс [?]

Events

birth: Sparta

residence: Illus (Wilusa)

residence: Egypt, During the Trojan War

residence: Menelaia of Mycenaeia, destroyed by ca. 1200 BC

Notes

Helen of Troy is a amalgamated heroine, the legends and myths being written centuries after, her story being told by the Greeks who were the victors. Egyptian stories of the same era and persons do not preserve the actual name of Helen although her story is better preserved in the Egyptian version. It is clear from the Egyptian texts that she was likely a

Herodotus adds weight to the "Egyptian" version of events by putting forward his own evidence—he traveled to Egypt and interviewed the priests of the temple of (Foreign Aphrodite, ξείνης Ἀφροδίτης) at Memphis. According to these priests, Helen had arrived in Egypt shortly after leaving Sparta, because strong winds had blown Paris's ship off course. King Proteus of Egypt, appalled that Paris had seduced his host's wife and plundered his host's home in Sparta, disallowed Paris from taking Helen to Troy. Paris returned to Troy without a new bride, but the Greeks refused to believe that Helen was in Egypt and not within Troy's walls. Thus, Helen waited in Memphis for ten years, while the Greeks and the Trojans fought. Following the conclusion of the Trojan War, Menelaus sailed to Memphis, where Proteus reunited him with Helen.

[edit] Sources

1. ↑ Herodotus, Histories, 113–120; Kim, Homer, poet and historian, 30–35 ; Alan, Introduction, 22–24 ; Lindsay, Helen in the Fifth Century, 135–138 -

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