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The legend goes that Paris was visiting Sparta, where Helen was wife of its king Menelaus. She took a fancy to him, and ran off with him, stealing a lot of the family wealth to buy Paris' ongoing favour. The Greeks didn't really worry to much about someone they called 'much manned Helen' (the implication being that she got around quite a bit), they were more concerned about the money. When besieging Troy, the Greeks who weren't making much progress were prepared to negotiate. Trojan king Priam said he would give the woman back. The Greeks responded 'what about the money' Priam said 'no way', so negation ceased and the siege went on. That part of the Iliad puts their values in perspective, and a mere woman wasn't the objective. After Troy was looted, Menelaus just took her home and life went on, subsidised by the 10 years of widespread looting.
So no, Helen was not kidnapped, she ran off most willingly, stealing Sparta's wealth. But this is all part of an entertaining story which the bards of Greece concocted different versions of and made a good living out of for 500 years. If indeed there was a Greek invasion, it was directed at looting Asia Minor over a ten year period. The final attack on the richest prize - Troy - lasted only a few weeks at the end of 10 year rampage around the eastern Aegean Sea.
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