The wife of Menelaus and the woman for whom the Greeks fought at Troy. In Homer’s epic work, she was the daughter of Zeus and Leda, with Tyndareus as her ‘human’ father. The Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, were her brothers, and Clytemnestra her sister. Helen was later said to be the daughter of Zeus and Nemesis… (Grimal, 1990)
