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Later, when Theseus kidnapped Helen, he gave her to Aethra for safekeeping.Helen's brothers, the Dioscuri, took Helen back and kidnapped Aethra to Lacedaemon in revenge. . There she became a slave of Helen with whom she went to Troy and remained there until found by her grandson, Acamas.
Aethra (possibly same as above) is, in one source, called the wife of Hyperion, rather than Theia, and mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene. [6] Aethra, daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen and mother of Theseus either by Poseidon [7] or Aegeus. [8] This is the same Aethra who went to Troy with Helen as one of her two handmaidens. [9]
Theseus, in an old tradition, [18] chose Helen, and together they kidnapped her, intending to keep her until she was old enough to marry. Pirithous chose Persephone, even though she was already married to Hades, king of the underworld. They left Helen with Theseus's mother, Aethra at Aphidna, whence she was rescued by the Dioscuri.
Aethra, the principal slave in Helen's household at Troy. She was the mother of Theseus, stolen many years before the Trojan War by the Dioscuri as revenge for her son's kidnapping of their sister Helen. Briseis, a woman captured in the sack of Lyrnessus, a small town in the territory of Troy, and awarded to Achilles as a prize. Agamemnon takes ...
Theseus took Helen and left her with his mother Aethra or his associate Aphidnus at Aphidnae or Athens. Theseus and Pirithous then traveled to the underworld, the domain of Hades, to kidnap Persephone. Hades pretended to offer them hospitality and set a feast, but, as soon as the pair sat down, snakes coiled around their feet and held them there.
Helen Mirren is setting a new beauty standard.. The Oscar-winning actress, 79, attended the 2024 L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth Honoree celebration on Nov. 21, in West Hollywood, Calif., to fête ...
Clymene, an "ox-eyed" servant of Helen of Troy. [17] She was a daughter of Aethra [18] by Hippalces, [19] thus half-sister to Theseus and a distant relative to Menelaus. [20] Clymene and her mother were taken by Helen to Troy as handmaidens when Helen was carried off by Paris. [21]
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