Helen Flashcards
Where was Helen queen?
Sparta
Who was most commonly said to be the parents of Helen?
Zeus and Nemesis
What did Nemesis take the form of to run away from Zeus?
goose
What did Zeus turn into to catch up to Nemesis?
Swan
Laying an egg near Sparta…?
Nemesis
Who did the Shepards take the egg of Helen to?
Leda
Who was the husband of Leda?
Tyndareus
Who were the immortal kids of Leda and Zeus?
Helen and Polydeuces(Pollux)
Who were the mortal kids of Leda and Tyndareus?
Clytemnestra and Castor
Who, twice-abducted…?
Helen
How old was Helen when abducted by Theseus and Peirithous?
12 years old
What goddess was Helen sacrificing to when she was taken by Theseus?
Artemis
Why did Theseus and Peirithous abduct Helen?
They wanted to marry daughters of Zeus
Where did Theseus and Peirithous bring Helen to?
Aphidnae, in Attica
What groups of people saved Helen from Aphidnae?
Spartans and Arcadians
What two people did Helen carry off with her when she was taken from Aphidnae?
Aethra and Phisadie
How was Phisadie related to Peirithous?
Sister
What were the new jobs of Aethra and Phisadie after they were abducted?
Helen’s handmaidens
Who was the only person to send no gifts when asking for Helen’s hand in marriage?
Odysseus
Who came all the way from Crete to try and marry Helen?
Idomeneus
How was Helen related to Penelope?
Cousins
Making his suitors swear an oath to defend Helen no matter who he picks as husband…?
Tyndareus
What did the suitors stand on to make the oath to Tyndareus?
Pieces of a horse
Who was the daughter of Menelaus and Helen?
Hermione
Who was the son of Menelaus and Helen?
Nicostratus
What goddess offered Helen as a bribe?
Aphrodite
What grandfather of Menelaus died in Crete, causing Menelaus to leave and cause Paris and Helen to be alone?
Catreus
Leaving to officiate in his grandfathers funeral….?
Menelaus
Where did Helen and Paris’s ship get driven by storms on their way to Troy?
Sidon
What Syrian port…?
Sidon
What goddess sent the storms that hit Paris and Helen’s ship?
Hera
What fighter killed Paris?
Philoctetes
What brother of Paris did Helen marry after Paris died?
Deiphobus
Who did Helen help steal the Palladium?
Odysseus
Disguised as a begged in Troy?
Odysseus
Cleverly imitating the voices of the wives of the men in the Trojan horse…?
Helen
What mans shrewdness prevented the Greeks from opening the doors of the horse when they heard their wives call?
Odysseus
Who killed Deiphobus?
Menelaus
Who did Helen learn the lore of healing herbs from?
Polydamna
Where did Menelaus and Helen stay for a long time on their way back to Sparta?
Egypt
Who was the husband of Polydamna?
Thon or Thonis
What warden of the Nile…?
Thon
Who told Menelaus that his brother was going to be killed by his wife?
Proteus
Who took revenge for his father, Agamemnons death?
Orestes
What killers of Agammenon did Orestes kill?
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
What friend of Orestes help him seize and almost kill Helen?
Pylades
Why did Orestes want to kill Helen?
Menelaus refused to defend him on trial
What sons of Menelaus chased Helen off from Sparta?
Nicostratus and Megapenthes
Who did Helen take refuge with in Rhodes?
Polyxo
Who was the husband of Polyxo?
Tlepolemus
Where was Tlepolemus king of?
Rhodes
Why did Polyxo lie to Helen and make a plot to kill her?
Her husband died in the Trojan war which was caused by Helen’s abduction
Dressing her maids as Erinyes..?
Polyxo
How was Helen usually said to have died?
Hanged by a tree
What Crotonan general..?
Leonymus
What oracle told Leonymus to visit White Island to heal his would?
Delphic oracle
What long dead hero was suppose to heal Leonymus?
Ajax of Locris
Ajax of Salamis, Patroclus, Antilochus, and Achilles..?
White Island(maybe)
Who was Helen said to be married to on the White Island?
Achilles
What poet did Helen blind but give back his sight after he wrote Palidonia or Recantation?
Stesichorus
Where were Helen and Menelaus buried?
Therapne
Who made Menelaus immortal?
Hera
Who made a cloud Helen to give to Paris?
Zeus
Who took Helen to Egypt while the cloud Helen was going to Troy?
Hermes
What king of Egypt was said to have taken Helen from Paris by Herodotus?
Proteus
