It is generally agreed that Helen, whose elopement with Paris caused the Trojan War, belongs to the realm of fiction and not fact. It is not unlikely that she was based on a historical queen or noble woman. However, her origin myth, in which she was hatched from an egg laid by her mother, Leda, is plainly invention.
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