, a prince of Troy, visited. During the "Judgment of Paris," the goddess Aphrodite had promised Paris the love of the world’s most beautiful woman in exchange for naming her the "fairest". Paris subsequently took Helen from Sparta to Troy.
: Whether viewed as a selfish adulteress or a captive soul, she represents the "intrinsic ambiguity" of the female figure in classical culture—simultaneously a source of life and a cause of ruin.
Before she was "of Troy," she was the . Her transition from a ruler in her own right to a symbol of destruction highlights the archetypal shift from domestic stability to chaotic desire.