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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Jacob de Backer’s Paris Being Admitted to the Bedchamber of Helen, with footnotes #38
Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and considered in Greek myth to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She was married to Menelaus, King of Sparta. When the Trojan prince Paris abducted Helen and carried her off to the city of Troy, the Greeks responded by mounting an attack on the city,…
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