HEIFER, see Ino.
HEL′ENA when a child was so beautiful that Theseus and Perithous stole
her, but she was restored by Castor and Pollux. She became the wife
of Menelaus, king of Sparta, but eloped with Paris, and thus caused
the Trojan War. After the death of Paris she married Deiphobus, his
brother, and then betrayed him to Menelaus. She was strangled by order
of Polyxo, king of Rhodes.
HE′LIADES were the daughters of Sol, and the sisters of Phaeton, at
whose death they were so sad that they stood mourning till they became
metamorphosed into poplar trees, and their tears were turned into
amber.
HEL′ICON. A mountain in Bœotia sacred to the Muses, from which place
the fountain Hippocrene flowed.
“Yet still the doating rhymer dreams,
And sings of Helicon’s bright streams;
But Helicon for all his clatter
Yields only uninspiring water.”