The 'Trojan War' was said to have started.
Helen of Troy was the wife of a Trojan king but when a man called Paris came along, she fell in love with him and they ran off, causing the Trojan War.
Oh, this is sooooo easy. Prince Paris of Troy and Queen Helen of Sparta. Paris took off with Helen. Her husband King Menelaus lauches one-thousand ships with the help of his brother King Agamemnon who rules all Greece. They start a war with Troy, Troy falls, Greece wins. Archilles dies.. it was basically Paris's fault. He took Helen with him to Troy.
Helen of Troy was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the king and queen of Sparta. Zeus appeared to Helen's mother in form of a swan, seducing her. Helen of Troy has two brothers and one sister: Castor and Polydeuces, and Clytemnestra. Helen then married Menelaus, the brother of Clytemnestra's husband, Aganemnon, and then later ran off with Paris of Troy.
Yes, Aphrodite had made her fall in love with Paris - Helen, having been made infatuated by Aphrodite, was all too willing to forget her husband Menelaus and go off with Paris.
The knight rider for Helen of Troy is often identified as Paris, the prince of Troy. He famously abducted Helen, which led to the outbreak of the Trojan War. Paris is depicted as a youthful and handsome figure, embodying both romance and tragedy in the mythological narrative. His actions set off a legendary conflict among the Greek and Trojan forces.
Poetically, Helen wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, whose treasure she stole when she ran off with Paris of Troy.
Paris of Troy carried off the fair Helen from Greece, and the Greeks went to rescue her.
Helen, Queen of Sparta, wife of King Menelaus, eloped with Paris and became known thereafter as Helen of Troy. One myth has it that Paris was asked to judge a beauty contest between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. In order to earn his favour, Aphrodite promised Paris the most beautiful woman in the world - who happened to be the already married Helen. Different literary sources differ on whether Helen joined Paris willingly or was abducted.
The Greeks were fighting the Trojans, because Paris (a prince of Troy) had carried off Helen, a Greek queen.
------- She was queen of Sparta, but taken to Troy by the Trojan Prince Paris. In other words, she was already taken by a man but then ran off with another. Can't be trusted, not faithful. ---------------Jdbonez. A Helen of Troy, in Literature, means a face for which wars were fought.
In Homer's "The Odyssey," Helen of Troy runs off with Paris, the prince of Troy. This act, often referred to as the "abduction of Helen," is a pivotal event that sparks the Trojan War. Helen's departure is framed as both a romantic escape and a cause of great strife, leading to the suffering of many Greek heroes, including Odysseus.
He was attending the funeral of his maternal grandfather, Catreus. As part of a diplomatic mission to Sparta, Paris was in the city. After Menelaus left for the funeral (apparently in Tegea) Paris and Helen left for Troy. Thus started the Trojan War Source: Wikipedia