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She was flesh and blood certainly, but she was also immortal,her father was none other than the great Zeus.
Her mother was beautiful Leda ((Queen of Sparta)) who was destroyed by the father of the gods in the form of a swan.
Leda's husband ((Tyndarecus)),Which on the same night, unaware of his feathered predecessor, also impregnated his wife.
She laid two eggs, one of which involed Helen and Polydeuces and the other of which contained Castor and Clytemnestra.Swan's
egg are known to be accepted for the sake of myth, it has never made much sense that the part of her pregnancy happened
by Tyndareus should produce an egg as well.
Nemesis, rather stern and sexless goddess whose job it was to curb excesses. Nemesis, not happy with
being raped by a swan, laid an egg and left it there. Leda found it, and when the egg hatched out came Helen and
the Dioscuri. More with that, Clytemnestra was not even a sister of Helen.
It is hard to try and imagine the childhood of the famous egg-born quartet. Two of them
could be injured, but not that bad; two had very special gifts that made them physically and mentally outstanding. Apparently
there was no jealousy among them. Castor and Polydeuces were so close they swore to die together because of the love they
had for each other, even if Polydeuces could not hope to fulfill this resolve. The relationship between Helen and Clytemnestra
was not that simple. Helen was absolutely beautiful, and this must have caused Clytemnestra some bad moments
when most comparisons were made.
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When the sisters reached puberty, Helen was kidnapped. Both the aging Theseus, king of Athens,
and his friend Peirithous, king of Larissa, wanted to have sex with one of Zeus' daughters before they died. Theseus chose
Helen, whose was already remarkable beauty was talked of far and wide. The abductors took her to Aphidna ((a small city north
of Athens)) and left her in the safekeeping of one of Theseus' vassals. He put his mother,whose is Aethra with her as
a guardian and companion. Then, stories arose that Theseus took her into safekeeping to do Tyndarcus a favor. One of Tyndarcus'
nephews was constantly pursuing her as a suitor, even at her very young age.
After awhile can be little question that Theseus took Helen’s virginity. After all, that
was the object of the kidnapping. Some suppose that he planned to keep her intact until she reached an age where she
can be married. More realistic writers even gave the couple a child. The child was Iphigeneia.
She gave birth to Hermione, Aethiolas, Maraphius, and Pleisthenes, also according to some, Nicostratus,
although many claimed he and Megapenthes were the sons of Menelaus by Pieris ((a slave )). In that case, we can took
at an additional reason.
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