Ancient Greece; Greek: Ελλάς, translit. Ellas; was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (c. AD 600).
Immediately following this period began
the Early Middle Ages & the Byzantine era;
Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age
collapse of Mycenaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began
to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period
& colonization of the Mediterranean Basin.
This was followed by | Classical Greece;
an era that began w/ the Greco-Persian Wars, lasting
from the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Due to the conquests
by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic
civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end
of the Mediterranean Sea; The Hellenistic period coming to an end
w/ the conquests & annexations of the eastern
Mediterranean by the Roman Republic,
first establishing the Roman province of Macedonia
in Roman Greece, & the later province of Achaea during the Roman Empire; Hell, in many religious & folkloric traditions,
is a place of torment & punishment in the afterlife;
Religions w/ a linear divine history
often depict several hell[s] as eternal resort-like destinations
analogous
to exile
while religions w/ a cyclic history often depict hell
as an intermediary layover between fantastical incarnations;
Typically these traditions locate hell in one or another
dimension, or even under the Earth's surface &
often include entrances & exits to & from Hell from the land of the living sky above [many mortal men are known to have traveled to the underworld or consorted w/ devils & demons so-called: Orpheus, Jesus, Faust, Robert Johnson & Aleister Crowley: Other afterlife destinations include
Heaven, Purgatory, Paradise, & Limbo;
Other traditions, which do not conceive of the afterlife
as a place of punishment or reward, merely describe Hell
as an abode of the dead, the grave, a neutral place
located under the surface of Earth, for example Sheol & Hades [my old, old neighborhood]; In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy; Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē, pronounced [helénɛː], also known as Helen of Sparta,
or simply Helen, was said to have been
the most beautiful woman in the world,
who was married to King Menelaus of Sparta,
but was abducted by Prince, Paris of Troy, resulting in the Trojan War
when the Achaeans set out to reclaim her & bring her back to Sparta;
She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus & Leda,
& was the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Polydeuces;
Leda & the Swan is a luridly pornographic story involving *******
& rarely depicted artistic subject from Greek mythology
in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces Leda; Leda thus bearing Helen & Polydeuces, enchanted godling offspring of Zeus
[thus
Helen was a demigod
like Orpheus, Heracles, Achilles & Dionysus, fulfilling the rank &
status of the Biblical Nephilim /ˈnɛfɪˌlɪm/ (Hebrew: נְפִילִים, nefilim) the offspring
of the "sons of God" & the "daughters of men" before the Deluge, according to Genesis 6:1–4:
A similar or identical biblical Hebrew term,
read as "Nephilim" by some scholars, or as the word "fallen"
appears in Ezekiel 32:27:
When people began to multiply from the face of the ground,
rolled into shape & being by the first insects,
an army of scarabs doing
clean-up after creation before the invention of ants
to maintain order on the most basic level of newly mined nature & once the creatures made of dung molded in the moist crevices of the earth into the shape best suited to them
copying the mandrake so to claw their way out of the soupy ionized
electrified mud;
some w/ female bits formed by hatchling sea anemone,
jellyfish & globular secreting sacks, while some only a stick &
two rocks hanging in a thin leathery pouch, looking like eggs,
but Surprise! [men continuing to be surprised to this day]
growing upright & naked,
sloughing of their insect overlords while taking up insects ways of farming & irrigation, taking hundreds of centuries
to build the towering hives of their ancestral youth
when the ants & bees & lone beetles taught them how, the squadrons of
butterflies never shared their ability to transform from
a segmented crawling garden slug
to the highest form of flying insect regaled majestically
in
the colorful royal emblems of their tribes]
& daughters were born to them, the Sons of God seeing that they were fair & took wives for themselves of all that they chose;
Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever,
for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—& also afterward—
when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans,
who bore children to them; These were the heroes that were of old,
warriors of renown.
— Genesis 6:1–4, [New Revised Standard Version]
The word is loosely translated as giants in some Bibles
& left noticably untranslated in others; The "Sons of God" interpreted
to be fallen angels according to some classical Judaic explanations;
while at the same time Leda bore Castor & Clytemnestra,
children of her mortal husband Tyndareus,
the King of Sparta;
The Judgement of Paris the event that led to the
Trojan War, & in slightly later versions to the founding of Rome
