Helen of Troy and the trojan war were centaral to the early history of acient greece,and the trojan war cycle was the culmination of many myths about the acient greece legendary heroes.Helen is the object of one of the most dramatic love stories of all time and one of the main reasons for a ten year war between the greeks and trojans.Helen of troy is known as the face that launched a thousand ships.Helen of troy was a daugter of zues.Helens mother was generaly considered to have been leda, the wife of king of sparta tyndareus.In some versions,Nemesis in bird form is the mother of Helen.The Helen egg was given to leda.Clytemnestra was the sister of Hlen but the daughter of Tyndareus.Helen of troy had two bothers Castor and Pollux.Pollux shared a father with Helen but Tyndareus was the father of Castor.The two brothers are called the Dioscuri.Agamemnon and Menelaus were sons of King Atreus of Mycenae. Agamemnon married the sister of Helen, Clytemnestra, and became king of Mycenae after driving his uncle out of Mycenae. The first likely mate of Helen was the Athenian hero Theseus who kidnapped Helen when she was still young.Menelaus, married Helen of Sparta. In this way, Menelaus and Agamemnon were not only brothers but brothers in law, just as Helen and Clytemnestra were not only half sisters, but sisters in law. Paris aka Alexander or Alexandros was the son of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba, but he was rejected at birth, and raised as a shepherd on Mt. Ida. While living the life of a shepherd, the three goddesses, Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena, appeared to him asking him to award the "fairest" of them the golden apple that Discord had promised one of them. Each goddess offered Paris a bribe, but the bribe offered by Aphrodite appealed to Paris most, so Paris awarded the apple to Aphrodite. Aphrodite had offered Paris the most beautiful woman as bride. This woman was Helen. Unfortunately, Helen was the bride of MenelausWhether or not there was love between Menelaus and Helen is unclear. In the end, they may have been reconciled, but meanwhile, when Paris came to the court of Menelaus of Sparta as a guest, Menelaus received and extended hospitality to him. Thus, when Menelaus discovered that Paris had taken off for Troy with Helen, he was enraged at this violation of the laws of hospitality.Before Menelaus won out in the bid for Helen, all the leading princes and unmarried kings of Greece had sought to marry Helen. Before Menelaus married Helen, he extracted an oath from these, the Achaean leaders, that should anyone try to kidnap Helen again, they would all bring their troops to win back Helen for her rightful husband. When Paris took Helen to Troy, Agamemnon gathered together these Achaean leaders and made them honor their promise. Agamemnon then led the troops to Aulis the point from troy.