She is the only mortal daughter of Zeus (Isocrates, Helen 16). Her sister Clytaemestra was after all merely the daughter of the mortal Tyndareus, but Helen is the daughter of Zeus himself. Helen is believed by some originally to have been a goddess, perhaps a tree goddess, Helen Dendritis (of the tree) in Sparta. A daughter of the sun, existing to be captured and then to be recovered by her brothers, the twin youth gods!
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