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Helen

also: daughter of Tyndareus, Tyndaris

Helen of Sparta, daughter of Tyndareus, whose abduction set off the Trojan War. Lucretius uses her rape and the war as examples of "accidents" (events), not self-subsistent things.

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On the Nature of Things poem · 1 mention

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