Helen appreciates Menelaus' simple manner, and when the time comes for her own marriage contests, she proposes a test that Menelaus more than passes. There she meets Menelaus, whose brother, Agamemnon, is competing. Leda and Tyndareus had hoped to hide her forever to avert her fate.īut she's an independent, headstrong sort, and, unveiled, she attends the marriage contests for her older sister, Clytemnestra. Helen begins to piece together that she is the love-child of her mother and Zeus, and the beauty bestowed by half-divinity makes her easily recognizable. On a trip to the oracle of Delphi, a sybil reveals that she will be the destruction of Asia, the ruin of Europe and the cause of many Greeks' deaths.
Queen Leda of Sparta and her husband, Tyndareus, are determined that no one, including Helen, will know how beautiful she is, veiling her and keeping her away from mirrors.
George, a patient storyteller, begins her tale from Helen's point of view at the very beginning.
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