- Alternative names
- Helene
- Information
- Helen of Troy
- Daughter of
- 👤 Leda 👤 Nemesis 👤 Oceanid Mother of Helen (name unknown)👤 Tyndareos 👤 Zeus
- Mother of
- 👤 Hermione (Spartan) 👤 Iphigeneia 👤 Nicostratos
- Wife of
- 👤 Achilles 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Deiphobos (Trojan) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Theseus
- Has children with
- 👤 Menelaos 👤 Theseus
- Born from
- 🏺 the Egg of Nemesis 🏺 the Eggs of Leda
- Eponym of
- 🌍 Helene (island) 🌍 the Bath of Helen (Argolid)
- Settles in
- 🌍 Cyrene (Libya)
- Creates
- 🌍 the Sanctuary of Eilethyia (Argos) 🏺 the Robe of Helen
- Dies at
- 🌍 Rhodes (island)
- Killed by
- 👤 Polyxo (Argive & Rhodian)
- Buried at
- 🏛️ the Tomb of Helen (Therapne)
- Has post-mortem existence at
- 🌍 White Island (Pontos) 🌍 the Elysian Fields 🌍 the Underworld
- Cult sites
- 🌍 Rhodes (island) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia)
- Dwelling
- 🏛️ the House of Alexander and Helen (Troy)
- Depictions
- 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Hierapolis (Syria) 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Rhamnous (Attica) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus (Olympia) 🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Temple of Nemesis (Rhamnous)💠 the Chest of Cypselos (Olympia) 💠 the Lesche of the Cnidians (Delphi) 💠 the Statue of Nemesis (Rhamnous)💠 the Throne of Apollo (Amyclai) 🖌️ Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater attributed to the Painter of the Boston 00.348 (Vatican 17941; LIMC Antenor I 9)🖌️ Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora attributed to the Antimenes Painter (Otago E48.231; Beazley 320099)🖌️ Attic Red-figure Calyx Krater attributed to the Niobid Painter (Ferrara 2895; Beazley 206949; LIMC Aineias 91)🖌️ Etruscan Bronze Mirror (JECM IX2)🖌️ Fragments of Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora (RD Milns 85.2740; Beazley 23188)🖌️ Wall paintings from Pompeii (Naples 109751; P-LOD r1-i2-p6-space-m)🖌️ Wall paintings from Pompeii (P-LOD r1-i7-p11-space-17)🖌️ Wall paintings from Pompeii (P-LOD r1-i7-p19-space-d)🖌️ Wall paintings from Pompeii (P-LOD r1-i7-p7-space-c)🖌️ Wall paintings from the House of Menander, Pompeii (P-LOD r1-i10-p4-space-4)
- Related Entities
- 🌍 Aigina (island) 🌍 Aitolia 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 Aphidnai (Attica) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Asine (Argolid) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Cape Sounion (Attica)🌍 Corinth (Argolid) 🌍 Cranae (Laconia) 🌍 Cranae (unlocatable) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Croton (Italy) 🌍 Cyprus (island) 🌍 Cyrene (Libya) 🌍 Egypt 🌍 Epidauros (Argolid) 🌍 Euboia (island) 🌍 Helene (island) 🌍 Hermion (Argolid) 🌍 Himera (Sicily) 🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Libya (region) 🌍 Mases (Argolid) 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 New Las (Laconia) 🌍 Phoinicia 🌍 Phylace (Thessaly) 🌍 Rhamnous (Attica) 🌍 Rhodes (island) 🌍 River Eurotas (Laconia) 🌍 Salamis (island) 🌍 Sidon (Phoinicia) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Tegea (Arcadia) 🌍 Thebes (Egypt) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 White Island (Pontos) 🌍 the Bath of Helen (Argolid) 🌍 the Beach of Troy 🌍 the Citadel of Troy 🌍 the Elysian Fields 🌍 the Ogylian Sea 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo (Delphi)🌍 the Peloponnese 🌍 the Plain of Troy 🌍 the Sanctuary of Aphrodite Migonitis (Laconia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Aphrodite Nymphia (Argolid) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia (Sparta) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Athena Lindia (Lindos) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Eilethyia (Argos) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Sarapis (Athens)🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ the House of Alexander and Helen (Troy) 🏛️ the House of Menelaos (Sparta) 🏛️ the Palace of Priam (Troy) 🏛️ the Scaian Gates (Troy) 🏛️ the Temple of Apollo Thymbraios (Thymbra) 🏛️ the Temple of Athena (Troy) 🏛️ the Tomb of Helen (Therapne) 🏛️ the Tomb of the Horse (Laconia) 🏛️ the Walls of Troy 🏺 the Ash Spear of Achilles 🏺 the Bracelets of Helen 🏺 the Breastplate of Lycaon🏺 the Drug of Helen 🏺 the Egg of Nemesis 🏺 the Eggs of Leda 🏺 the Golden Apple 🏺 the Palladion (statue) 🏺 the Robe of Helen 🏺 the Ships of Alexander 🏺 the Shoes of Helen 🏺 the Statue of Thetis 🏺 the Statues of the Praxidikai 🏺 the Trojan Horse 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Aphrodite Hoplismene 👤 Academos (eponym) 👤 Acamas (Athenian) 👤 Achilles 👤 Adraste 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aiacos 👤 Aias (the greater) 👤 Aias (the lesser) 👤 Aineias 👤 Aithra (Trojan) 👤 Aithra (m. of Theseus) 👤 Alcandre 👤 Alcippe (Spartan) 👤 Alcmaion (epigonos) 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Alycos 👤 Amphilochos (epigonos) 👤 Andromache 👤 Antenor (Trojan) 👤 Anticlos 👤 Antilochos (Pylian) 👤 Antimachos (Trojan) 👤 Aphidnos (eponym) 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Asclepios 👤 Athena 👤 Briseis 👤 Cassandra 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Clymene (Trojan) 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Clytios (Trojan) 👤 Deiphobos (Trojan) 👤 Demophon (Athenian) 👤 Diomede (Lesbian) 👤 Diomedes (Argive) 👤 Echemos (Arcadian) 👤 Electra (Trojan) 👤 Elephenor 👤 Enarsphoros 👤 Eros 👤 Euryalos (Argonaut) 👤 Eurybates (Mycenaean) 👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Hecabe 👤 Hector (Trojan) 👤 Helenos (Trojan) 👤 Hera 👤 Hermes 👤 Hermione (Spartan) 👤 Hicetaon 👤 Hierophile 👤 Himeros (personification) 👤 Hyacinthos (Laconian) 👤 Idaios (Trojan II) 👤 Idas (Argonaut) 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Iphigeneia 👤 Iphis (Trojan) 👤 Iris 👤 Lampos (Trojan) 👤 Las (eponym) 👤 Leda 👤 Lycomedes (Cretan) 👤 Lycomedes (s. of Creon) 👤 Lynceus (Argonaut) 👤 Marathos (Arcadian) 👤 Megapenthes (Spartan) 👤 Meges 👤 Menelaos 👤 Menestheus (Athenian) 👤 Momos 👤 Moros 👤 Narcissos 👤 Nemesis 👤 Neoptolemos 👤 Nicostratos 👤 Nireus (Symian) 👤 Oceanid Mother of Helen (name unknown)👤 Odysseus 👤 Oinone (Trojan) 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Oucalegon 👤 Panthalis 👤 Panthoos 👤 Patroclos (Myrmidon) 👤 Peirithous (Lapith) 👤 Peisistratos (Pylian I) 👤 Persephone 👤 Phylo 👤 Podarces (Thessalian) 👤 Polybos (Egyptian) 👤 Polydamna 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Polyxo (Argive & Rhodian) 👤 Priam 👤 Protesilaos 👤 Proteus (Egyptian) 👤 Telemachos 👤 Theseus 👤 Thetis 👤 Thoas (Aitolian) 👤 Thon 👤 Thymoites (Trojan I) 👤 Timandra 👤 Tlepolemos (Rhodian) 👤 Tyndareos 👤 Tyro 👤 Zephyr 👤 Zeus 👤 the Eidolon of Helen 👥 the Charites 👥 the Defenders of Troy 👥 the Greek Contingent at Troy 👥 the Mycenae contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Olympian Gods👥 the Suitors of Helen 👥 the Suitors of Penelope on Ithaca 💠 the Chest of Cypselos (Olympia) 💠 the Lesche of the Cnidians (Delphi) 💠 the Statue of Nemesis (Rhamnous)💠 the Throne of Apollo (Amyclai)
- Appears in
- 📜 Cypria Argumentum 1 West📜 Cypria Argumentum 11 West📜 Cypria Argumentum 2 West📜 Cypria Argumentum 4 West📜 Cypria fr. 1 West📜 Cypria fr. 10 West📜 Cypria fr. 11 West📜 Cypria fr. 12 West📜 Cypria fr. 14 West📜 Cypria fr. 19 West📜 Lindos Chronicle B11📜 Little Iliad Argumentum 2 West📜 Little Iliad Argumentum 4 West📜 Little Iliad fr. 17 West📜 Little Iliad fr. 28 West📜 Sack of Troy Argumentum 2 West📜 Unplaced Epic fr. 8 West📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.23📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 2.15-2.16📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.1-3.5📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.2📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.3📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.4📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.5📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.6-3.27📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.13📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.19📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.22📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.9📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.1-6.30📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.30📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.10.7📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.10.8-3.10.9📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.11.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.12.6📜 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 225-258📜 Cinaithon fr. 3 West📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.5📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 19.326📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.339📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 24.251📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 3.144📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 3.242📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 3.443📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 5.64📜 Euripides, Cyclops 175-202📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 1-47📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 122-137📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 398-399📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 766-771📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 860-879📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 940-1001📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 951-960📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 985-986📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 154a-e Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 155 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 156 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 21 Most📜 Hesiod fr. 247 Most📜 Hesiod fr. 248 Most📜 Homer, Iliad 11.122-11.135📜 Homer, Iliad 24.723-24.775📜 Homer, Iliad 3.121-3.138📜 Homer, Iliad 3.139-3.170📜 Homer, Iliad 3.161-3.170📜 Homer, Iliad 3.171-3.180📜 Homer, Iliad 3.203-3.224📜 Homer, Iliad 3.267-3.323📜 Homer, Iliad 3.330-3.382📜 Homer, Iliad 3.369-3.447📜 Homer, Iliad 3.383-3.417📜 Homer, Iliad 3.421-3.427📜 Homer, Iliad 3.436-3.447📜 Homer, Iliad 3.85-3.110📜 Homer, Iliad 6.286-6.296📜 Homer, Iliad 7.344-7.364📜 Homer, Iliad 7.365-7.397📜 Homer, Odyssey 15.160-15.181📜 Homer, Odyssey 15.99-15.129📜 Homer, Odyssey 4.1-4.19📜 Homer, Odyssey 4.120-4.137📜 Homer, Odyssey 4.183-4.189📜 Homer, Odyssey 4.219-4.234📜 Homer, Odyssey 4.235-4.264📜 Homer, Odyssey 4.265-4.289📜 Homer, Odyssey 4.561-4.569📜 Lucian, Apology for the 'Salaried Posts in Great Houses' 1📜 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 27.1-27.2 MacLeod📜 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 5.1-5.2 MacLeod📜 Lucian, Essays in Portraiture 22📜 Lucian, Judgement of the Goddesses 13-16📜 Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses 11📜 Lucian, The Dance 40📜 Lucian, The Dance 45📜 Lucian, The Runaways 18📜 Ovid, Amores 1.10📜 Pausanias 1.18.4📜 Pausanias 1.33.7📜 Pausanias 1.33.8📜 Pausanias 1.35.1-1.35.2📜 Pausanias 1.41.3-1.41.6📜 Pausanias 10.12.1-10.12.7📜 Pausanias 10.25.4-10.25.8📜 Pausanias 10.25.7-10.25.8📜 Pausanias 2.2.3📜 Pausanias 2.22.6-2.22.7📜 Pausanias 2.32.7📜 Pausanias 3.1.5📜 Pausanias 3.15.10-3.15.11📜 Pausanias 3.15.3📜 Pausanias 3.18.15📜 Pausanias 3.19.9-3.19.13📜 Pausanias 3.20.9📜 Pausanias 3.22.1-3.22.2📜 Pausanias 3.24.10-3.24.11📜 Pausanias 4.16.8📜 Pausanias 5.18.1-5.18.3📜 Pausanias 5.19.1-5.19.6📜 Pindar, Isthmian 8 49-60📜 Pindar, Nemean 7 17-49📜 Pindar, Olympian 13 40-92📜 Pindar, Olympian 3 1-45📜 Pindar, Pythian 11 1-37📜 Pindar, Pythian 5 43-93📜 Pindar fr. 52f Snell-Maehler📜 Plutarch, Theseus 29.2📜 Plutarch, Theseus 31.1📜 Plutarch, Theseus 31.1-31.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 31.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 32.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 32.3-32.4📜 Plutarch, Theseus 32.4-33.1📜 Plutarch, Theseus 32.5📜 Plutarch, Theseus 34.1-34.2📜 Pomponius Mela 2.109📜 Ps-Lucian, Charidemos 16📜 Ps-Lucian, Charidemos 17📜 Ps-Lucian, Charidemos 18📜 Ps-Lucian, Charidemos 6📜 Ps-Lucian, The Patriot 23📜 Strabo 1.2.30-1.2.35📜 Strabo 17.1.16-17.1.19📜 Strabo 4.1.7📜 Strabo 8.6.9📜 Strabo 9.1.17📜 Strabo 9.1.22
- Mentioned in Text
- Cypria Lindos Chronicle Little Iliad Sack of Troy Unplaced EpicApollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisCinaithonD-Scholia, IliadEuripides, CyclopsEuripides, Trojan WomenHesiod, EhoiaiHesiodHomer, IliadHomer, OdysseyLucian, Apology for the 'Salaried Posts in Great Houses'Lucian, Dialogues of the DeadLucian, Essays in PortraitureLucian, Judgement of the GoddessesLucian, On Salaried Posts in Great HousesLucian, The DanceLucian, The RunawaysOvid, AmoresPausaniasPindar, Isthmian 8Pindar, Nemean 7Pindar, Olympian 13Pindar, Olympian 3Pindar, Pythian 11Pindar, Pythian 5PindarPlutarch, TheseusPomponius MelaPs-Lucian, CharidemosPs-Lucian, The PatriotStrabo