- Hel|en of Troy
- Hel|en of Troy «HEHL uhn»,Greek Legend. a very beautiful Greek woman, the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. Her kidnaping by Paris caused the Trojan War.
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