HelenPronunciation: /ˈhɛlɪn/ Greek MythologyDefinition of Helen the daughter of Zeus and Leda, born from an egg. In the Homeric poems she was the outstandingly beautiful wife of Menelaus, and her abduction by Paris (to whom she had been promised, as a bribe, by Aphrodite) led to the Trojan War. Helen in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Helen in the US English dictionary