{"id":11372,"count":4,"description":"In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy (in Greek, \u1f19\u03bb\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 \u2013 Hel\u00e9n\u0113), also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or Nemesis), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War.\nThe etymology of Helen's name has been a problem to scholars until the present. Georg Curtius related Helen (\u1f19\u03bb\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7) to the moon (Selene \u03a3\u03b5\u03bb\u03ae\u03bd\u03b7). \u00c9mile Boisacq considered \u1f19\u03bb\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 from the noun \u1f10\u03bb\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 meaning \"torch\". It has also been suggested that the \u03bb of \u1f19\u03bb\u03ad\u03bd\u03b7 arose from an original \u03bd, and thus the etymology of the name is connected with the root of Venus. Linda Lee Clader points out however that none of the above suggestions offers much satisfaction.\nIf the name has an Indo-European etymology, it is possibly a suffixed form of a root *wel- \"to turn, roll\", or of *sel- \"to flow, run\". The latter possibility would allow comparison to the Vedic Sanskrit Sara\u1e47y\u016b, a character who is abducted in...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/helen\/","name":"Helen","slug":"helen","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/11372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=11372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}