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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8332204, member: 20201&quot;]<b>1972 Helen of Troy - The Elopement SCFC</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1476961[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1476962[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Helen of Troy - The Elopement</p><p>&quot;The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Helen of Troy was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was the sister of Clytemnestra and Castor and Polydeuces.</p><p>In the form of a swan, Zeus, the king of gods was chased by an eagle, and sought refuge with Leda. The swan gained her affection, and the two mated. Leda then produced an egg, from which Helen emerged along with her siblings.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta, but eloped with Prince Paris of Troy, resulting in the Trojan War. The Achaeans set out to reclaim her when &quot;the fleet of a thousand ships&quot; launched into battle to bring her back to Sparta.</p><p>It was during the Trojan War that Achilles was killed by Paris with an arrow that pierced his heel, his one vulnerable point.</p><p>In the Odyssey, Homer says that Helen of Troy also guesses the plot of the Trojan Horse and tries to trick and uncover the Greek soldiers inside the horse by imitating the voices of their wives, and Anticlus attempts to answer from inside, but Odysseus shuts his mouth with his hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts&quot;</p><p>The wooden horse had soldiers inside and the Trojans took it inside the walls of Troy as a gift to Athena. At night the soldiers came out and opened the gates of the city, the Greek armies entered and they defeated Troy and rescued Helen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Helen returned to Sparta and lived for a time with Menelaus, where she was encountered by Telemachus in Book 4 of The Odyssey. As depicted in that account, she and Menelaus were completely reconciled and had a harmonious married life—he holding no grudge at her having run away with a lover and she feeling no restraint in telling anecdotes of her life inside besieged Troy.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Mount Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus&#039; return. A curious fate is recounted by Pausanias the geographer, which has Helen share the afterlife with Achilles in Hedes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1476960[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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