The Open court . - have Helen, the wife ofAgamemnon, known as the most heautiful woman on earth, andwhen Iaris succeeds l)y the aid of Aphrodite in eloping with Helen,the Greeks unite in an expedition of revenge to hring her hack toGreece. Helen is a humanized deity as much as Heracles, for Homerspeaks of Menelaos to whom she was marriecl as the husband of a. goddess, and her name is a])pareutl\- an archaic form of the word?Selene which n)eaus the moon. Ill the ancient hisldry of Rome .Mars is reported to ha\e heenthe father t>\ Ivimulns and Renuis ])\ a \estal virgin called also
The Open court . - have Helen, the wife ofAgamemnon, known as the most heautiful woman on earth, andwhen Iaris succeeds l)y the aid of Aphrodite in eloping with Helen,the Greeks unite in an expedition of revenge to hring her hack toGreece. Helen is a humanized deity as much as Heracles, for Homerspeaks of Menelaos to whom she was marriecl as the husband of a. goddess, and her name is a])pareutl\- an archaic form of the word?Selene which n)eaus the moon. Ill the ancient hisldry of Rome .Mars is reported to ha\e heenthe father t>\ Ivimulns and Renuis ])\ a \estal virgin called also known as Ilia. According { the jxipular Roman tradi-tion recordrd in llu- hook o| Livy, Kea .Silvia (or Ilia) was thedaughttr of .\umitor. the exiled or (lei)osed king of Alha lis \oungcr brother had usiu-])ed the throne, and in order to assurehiinself against die rights of his elder brother caused the lattcrs ()l.^?.\I IlAX i;kii)i:s. <)<) (laus^htcr to l)c mack a \rslal \irj^in, and Iranslcnxd tn llu Uiii])lrof \csta. lUit IkIX a divinr (kstim iiilnfrixd. Mars sikctcd Iutas his sp(nisc. and the \-ir,!^in Kca Silvia IxuT liim ihr twins Komnhisand Renms. The rest nf the k-.^x-nd is suttiri^ully l^iinwn; the iratennck» had the infants in the woods, hnt a she-wdlf nnrseilthem, and this inciik-nt has heeoine t
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