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The Ancients

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The Myth of Helen of Troy

The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War but not in its entirety. Helen was supposedly born of Leda, a woman after she was raped by Zeus. She had a kind of slightly semi-divine side to her partly because of that. Her husband and his brother Agamemnon invade Troy intent on getting her back.

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