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    right into the hearts of anger and greed. Helen of Troy is the alleged daughter of Zeus (Ancient Greece Heavenly God who engaged in sexual encounters with human women) who seduced and impregnated Helen’s mother Leda during her marriage to King Tyndareus of Lacedaemon. Blessed with undeniable Godly beauty, word of Helen spread far and wide sparking curiosity and desire in men of all nations to see “The most beautiful woman on earth”. Among those curious minds was King Menelaus of Sparta, whose brother

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    right into the hearts of anger and greed. Helen Of Troy is the alleged daughter of Zeus ( Ancient Greece Heavenly God who engaged in sexual encounters with human women) who seduced and impregnated Helen’s mother Leda during her marriage to King Tyndareus of Lacedaemon. Blessed with undeniable Godly beauty, word of Helen spread far and wide sparking curiosity and desire in men of all nations to see “The most beautiful woman on earth”. Among those curious minds was King Menelaus of Sparta whose brother

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    right into the hearts of anger and greed. Helen Of Troy is the alleged daughter of Zeus ( Ancient Greece Heavenly God who engaged in sexual encounters with human women) who seduced and impregnated Helen’s mother Leda during her marriage to King Tyndareus of Lacedaemon. Blessed with undeniable Godly beauty, word of Helen spread far and wide sparking curiosity and desire in men of all nations to see the woman who was titled “The most beautiful woman on earth”. Among those curious minds was King Menelaus

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    Castor and Pollux were twins born from a single egg, Castor was mortal while Pollux was immortal. The twins were always seen together, even at war. My sister and I are similar to Castor and Pollux because we spend any time that we get with each other. From anywhere in school to at home, we sit next to each other and we stay in our room together. I considered her to be both my best friend and sister. In one variation of the myth, the twin’s herd of cattle was taken by their cousins. Upon stealing

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    are supposed to be based on two people that care for each other and never want them to get hurt, unlike Tyndareus made the love of his life Leda suffer when her family was killed from a storm that he asked Mother Nature to cause. In scene 1 of 99 Ways to F*ck a Swan has a point of attack problems between Leda and Tyndareus because of Mother Nature had said in the script to Tyndareus, “Tyndareus, you chose to let the woman you love suffer in order to

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    ingenious and cunning. Before the Trojan War started, Odysseus was one of the suitors that wanted to marry Helen, step-daughter of king Tyndareus of Sparta. However, the suitors were many and there didn't seem to be a way to solve who the husband would be. Odysseus told Tyndareus that he would provide a solution if he helped him marry Tyndareus' niece, Penelope. Tyndareus agreed and Odysseus proposed to draw straws. Before that, though, he made everyone swear an oath that they would all support the husband

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    the man name Tyndareus fell in love with Leda in first sight. Tyndareus had ask the Mother Nature to help him to get Leda’s love for him, even to agree to destroy Leda’s life. Even though Leda had become Tyndareus’s bride, she was not happy to be with him. Tyndareus had to conform himself and forcing himself to think that Leda love him. The writer had perform a dialogue in the play, when Tyndareus is speaking to himself, “it ok, it ok… she loves you. She love you” (9). Tyndareus was too afraid

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    Annotated Bibliography Menelaus was a king of Sparta in ancient Greek mythology and was married to Helen. His immediate family members were his parents Atreus and Aerope, and his brother Agamemnon who was ruler of the city of Mycenae. Menaleus was one of the main characters in the Trojan War. When Menelaus and Agamemnon were children, their father, Atreus battled with his brother, their Uncle, Thyestes. Atrius and Thyestes could not agree about who would be the king of the city of Mycenae

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    was a man brought into the world by Laertes and Anticlea. He was a suitor who wanted to marry Helen, step daughter of Tyndareus. Tyndareus, king of Sparta, couldn’t figure out who, out of the many suitors, would have the hand of his beautiful step daughter, and feared that a war would start. Then, Odysseus, being as intelligent as he was, came up with a plan and told king Tyndareus. The king made every single one of the suitors swear an oath that they would respect and protect the Union of whoever

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    The author uses an allusion to question whether Leda knew she was being raped by a God, and would eventually cause the war of Troy. Mythologically, Leda was the princess of Aetolia and married to Tyndareus. Zeus seduced her in the form of a swan, impregnating her with Helen, while Tyndareus impregnated her with Clytemnestra at the same time. Helen was the main cause of the Trojan war and Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon along with Aegisthus. The poem questions if Leda knew that she was being raped by

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