Just to set the record straight, Zeus turned himself into a swan and impregnated Leda (who happened to have been married to Polydeuces at the time, so presummably she was not a virgin). The offspring of this odd coupling was Helen of Troy. This is the face that, according to Goethe, "launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium (Troy)". It seems that Helen was married to Menelaus when she ran off with Paris, son of Priam and prince of Troy. Menelaus gathered his friends (including such stalwarts as Agamemnon, Achilles, and the rest of the local Elks Club), got a fleet together (1,000 ships), and sailed to Troy to whup Paris's ass and get Helen back. The ten year battle with all its ins and outs is what we now know as the Trojan War. Wikipedia's "Cliff's Notes").

I don't think Judaic mythology picked up on any of this, because any Judaic myth of any importance at all is found in the Old Testament.

I recall a comic book that a friend of mine loaned me that was all about the Trojan War. Whoever the cartoonist was depicted the lovely Helen (taking into consideration her odd lineage) as looking a bit like Daisy Duck.

Now, back to our regular broadcast.

Don Firth