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Helen

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Helen is the child of the character Mary and the Greek god Pan in Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan.

↻ synthesized from 16 sources

When

First attested
1200 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Appears in Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan.

Relationships

co occurs with
Iris, Boreas, Zephyrus, Priam, Aethiolas, Megapenthes, Pleisthenes, Pirithous, Menelaus, Oenone, Hecuba, Calchas, Cassandra, Polydamas, Philoctetes, The Seasons, Neoptolemus, Epeüs, Sinon, Nestor, The Muses, Laocoön, Leda, Pollux, Castor, Tyndareus, Sin, succubus, Female version of the creature, The Little Mermaid, Carmilla, puma-woman, Hector, Cerberus, Hades, Chiron, Persephone, Apollo, Hermes, Erinyes, Odysseus, Aeneas, Athena, Aphrodite, Zeus, Heracles, Muse
sibling of
Castor, Philonoe, Phoebe, Timandra, Polydeuces, Pollux, Clytemnestra, Twin Brethren
consort of
Menelaus, Paris, Simon Magus, Menelaos, Theseus, Simon
parent of
Nicostratus, Hermione, Corythus, Bunomus, Aganus, Idaeus, Iphigenia
enemy of
Polyxo, Hera
allied with
Menelaus
child of
Pan, Nemesis, Zeus, Leda
manifested by
Ennoia
has aspect
Nephele

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Mentioned by

and 13 more

Sources

wikipedia (16)
  1. List of female monsters in literature
  2. Anima and animus
  3. Iris (mythology)
  4. Helen of Troy
  5. Leda and the Swan
  6. Simon Magus
  7. Menelaion
  8. Polyxo (Rhodes)
  9. Superfecundation
  10. Teichoscopy
  11. Therapne
  12. Troides helena
  13. Posthomerica
  14. Trojan War
  15. Leda with Her Children
  16. Olympian 3

Source passages

“The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen (1894): Helen, the child of the character Mary and the Greek god Pan”

#6897 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The second is Helen, an allusion to Helen of Troy in Greek mythology. In this phase, women are viewed as capable of worldly success and of being self-reliant, intelligent and insightful, even if not altogether virtuous. This second phase is meant to show a strong schism in external talents”

#19945 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“According to the lost epic Cypria by Stasinus, it was Iris who informed Menelaus, who had sailed off to Crete, of what had happened back in Sparta while he was gone, namely his wife Helen's elopement with the Trojan Prince Paris as well as the death of Helen's brother Castor.”

#28771 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Theseus chose Helen, and Pirithous vowed to marry Persephone, the wife of Hades. 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.”

#40290 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster”

#40329 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001