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Who was the Trojan prince who fell in love with Helen and brought her back to troy?
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Paris Prince of Troy
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Who was the Trojan prince who kidnapped Helen of troy?
Paris kidnapped Helen and brought her back to Troy.
Was Menelaus married to Helen?
Yes Helen was married to Menelaus and married also to Prince Paris of Troy and after his death to Deiphobus his brother, both sons of Priam King of Troy. After Deiphobus died at Menelaus's hands, he took back Helen as his wife as he had intended from the start of the Trojan war.
How did the Greeks invade Troy during the Trojan war?
When Helen,Zeus and leda's daughter,married Menelaus the king of Sparta. A Trojan prince Paris kid kidnapped her and Menelaus called a war to get her wife back.... But I forgot if Paris or Menelaus took her back
Whose faceLaunched a thousand ships?
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.
What role did king Menelaus of Sparta play in the Trojan war?
Menelaus of Sparta was the Spartan King that was the true husband of Helen. Paris, a Trojan Prince, stole Helen from Menelaus and brought her back to Troy. Before this happened, you need to know some things. Helen was the most beautiful woman in the world. She had many suitors, and finally her father asked for help from Oddyeseus, King of Ithaca. Oddyseues said that Helen's father should ask all the suitors to take an oath that they will abide by Helen's father's choice and that if Helen is stolen from the man chosen, everyone must go out and hunt down that man. When Helen was stolen by Paris, everyone that was a suitor of Helen needed to take all his men and fight for Helen. This is was started the Trojan War.
What is the roll of menalaus in Trojan war?
Menelaus of Sparta was commander of the Greek army. His wife Helen ran away with Paris prince of Troy so Menelaus went to get her back basically.
What were the opponents of the Trojan war?
The Greeks of Sparta. Paris, Prince of Troy, stole immortal Helen of Sparta from her father, Menelaus. Menelaus wanted his (adopted, in a way) daughter back. The Greeks stormed Troy, where Paris and Helen were living together. That 10-year siege, called the Trojan war, involved the god Ares, the goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, and the famous Trojan horse.
What happened to Helen in the Trojan War?
She ran off with her Trojan lover Paris, leaving her husband King Menelaos behind in Sparta, but stealing most of his portable property to take with her. After the Greeks took Troy ten years later, Menelaos brought Helen back home with him, and more importantly, the property too.
What was Odysseus' role in the Trojan war?
He was one if Helen's old suitors, all of which has sworn an oath to back Helen's husband to defend her honour, so when Paris abducted Helen he was forced to fight in the war. Odysseus led the armies of Ithaca in a pact to retrieve the kidnapped wife of Menelaus (Helen) back from the Trojan prince Paris. Odysseus is the iconic bronze-age Greek hero. Although physically shorter in stature than some of the other prominent heroes of the Trojan War, he was broadly-built and extremely crafty. It is this characteristic of cunning which is Odysseus' hallmark. The ruse of the Trojan Horse was the product of Odysseus' skillful imagination.
Did Helen Start the Trojan War?
You could say yes. When the goddesses Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera fought over the Apple of Discord, the prince of Troy, Paris, was called to see who was the fairest. When Paris chose Aphrodite, Aphrodite gave him the married Helen, Queen of Sparta, to him as Paris' wife. When Helen's husband Menalaus found out, he was enraged and called the other city-states to aid him and fight the Trojan War. Thus the Trojan War began. After all those years Helen returned with Menalaus back to Sparta after the Greeks' victory.
Did Jason fight in the Trojan war?
no
What's the story on Helen the Greek god?
Helen was not a goddess, she was a queen. Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena had an argument over who was the greatest. To decide, they went to a mortal prince named Paris. and each offered him a bribe: Hera power, Athena victory in battle, and Aphrodite the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris chose Aphrodite, who helped him take Helen from her husband Menelaus. This started the Trojan War. Whether Helen went willingly or not is unknown. After the war ended, Menelaus brought her back to Sparta.
