Helen

Family: Sparta · Role: daughter of Tyndarus · First appears: Theseus

Life events

Theseus and Pirithous abducted the young Helen from Sparta.(Theseus · 📍 Sparta)
- With: Theseus
- “Theseus and Pirithous went both together to Sparta, and, having seized the young lady as she was dancing in the temple of Diana Orthia, fled away with her.”
Theseus abducted Ariadne, Antiope, Anaxo, and Helen.(Comparison of Romulus with Theseus)
- With: Theseus Ariadne Antiope Anaxo
- “for he stole Ariadne, Antiope, Anaxo the Troezenian, at last Helen, when he was an old man, and she not marriageable;”

siblings with Castor “the war that Castor and Pollux brought against Athens came very opportunely to further the sedition he had been promoting, and some say that he by his persuasions was wholly the cause of their invading the city. At their first approach, they committed no acts of hostility, but peaceably demanded their sister Helen”
siblings with Pollux “the war that Castor and Pollux brought against Athens came very opportunely to further the sedition he had been promoting, and some say that he by his persuasions was wholly the cause of their invading the city. At their first approach, they committed no acts of hostility, but peaceably demanded their sister Helen”
guardian: Aphidnus “Theseus ... conveyed her to Aphidnae, not being yet marriageable, and delivered her to one of his allies, called Aphidnus, and, having sent his mother Aethra after to take care of her, desired him to keep them so secretly”
guardian: Aethra “having sent his mother Aethra after to take care of her”
with Theseus (interaction) “Theseus and Pirithous went both together to Sparta, and, having seized the young lady as she was dancing in the temple of Diana Orthia”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.