52/122 Helen is called 'Tyndarean' because she was the daughter of Tyndarus. Paris, son of Priam, had carried her off from her husband Menelaus, and so caused the Trojan war. The goddess Pallas (Athena) wore on her shield the head of the snaky-haired monster Medusa, one of the Gorgons. The walls of Troy were said to have been built by Apollo and Neptune. _Hesperia_, 'the western land,' here means Italy. |