person
Helen
Wife of Menelaus, carried off by Paris; 'Tyndareus's daughter'. Made to lure Polyxena to the sacrifice under pretense of marriage, she defends herself as herself a victim of the war.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §273 Helen
Sister of Clytemnestra, whose flight with Paris launched the war; pardoned and restored to Menelaus.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §88.6 Helen
Helen of Sparta, whose abduction caused the Trojan War; Seneca mocks the pedantic puzzle over her age beside Hecuba's.
- Octavia §785 Tyndareus' daughter
Helen of Sparta, daughter (by repute) of Tyndareus, whose abduction caused the Trojan War.
- The Trojan Women §249 Helen
Wife of Menelaus, carried off by Paris; made to lure Polyxena to the sacrifice under pretense of marriage.