Weird Things Everyone Just Ignores About Helen Of Troy

As legendary beauties go, few are as legendary or as beautiful as the mythic Helen of Troy, who became the cause of the Trojan War. But who is this Helen? Was she really worth losing a city over? Turns out there's probably a lot of weird stuff you don't know about Helen of Troy.

If you didn't know anything about Helen of Troy, you could probably assume two things from her name: she was called Helen, and she was from Troy. Well, only one of those things is true. It would actually be more accurate to call her Helen of Sparta, because she was born, raised, and married there. And to be fair, some people do call her that.

As the Encyclopedia Britannica explains, she didn't go to Troy until the Trojan prince Paris took her there as his prize for picking Aphrodite as the winner in a beauty contest.

In fact, her presumed father was the king of Sparta, Tyndareus, and her first husband was also the king of Sparta. Legend says Tyndareus once forgot to make a sacrifice to Aphrodite, and as a result, she cursed his daughters so they would be doomed to leave their husbands and marry multiple times. That fate applied to his step-daughter Helen as well as his biological daughters Timandra and Clytemnestra. The latter not only left her husband but in fact stabbed him to death in the bathtub. Harsh.

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Helen of Egypt? | 3:42
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