According to a variant of Helen of Troy’s story, she was driven out of Sparta by her stepsons in widowhood and fled to Rhodes. There, she was hanged by the Rhodian queen Polyxo in revenge for the death of Polyxo’s husband, Tlepolemus, in the Trojan War, which Helen indirectly caused by eloping with the Trojan prince Paris.
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