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Helen of Sparta or as she is other known Helen of Troy was the face to launch a thousand ships. She was not a god but the queen of Sparta who was kidnapped by Paris and taken to Troy. In result starting the Trojan War.
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Paris was not a Greek god. He was the son of the king of Troy and he fell in love with Helen. She was the married Queen of Sparta. Paris abducted her and started a war between the Trojans and Spartans when Menelaus, husband of Helen and King of Sparta went after them. Helen was known in the ancient world as the most beautiful woman of her day. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? - first line of a poem by C. Marlowe
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Helen, the daughter of the god Zeus and the mortal Leda, was described as the most beautiful woman in the world. She was the wife of Menelaus, brother to King Agamemnon of Sparta. The Trojan prince Paris kidnapped her, and in vengence Agamemnon "launched a thousand ships" to Troy in order to wage war (the Trojan War, specifically, which is detailed in Homer's The Illiad) and bring Helen back to Sparta.
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