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In Homer's version of The Odyssey, Helen escapes after the Trojan Horse, which is a gift to Troy, came past the gates of Troy and destroys Troy in flames.
Before the horse enters, Odesseus disguises to dress as a beggar. To achieve the look, he "...first, given himself an outrageuos beating and thrown some rags on",
then enters the city of Troy. When reaches Helen, she realizes Odysseus as he tells exactly what his fighters were going to do to get through the gates of Troy and rescue Helen.
So Helen knew the plan that the Akhaians or Achaeans (Greeks) were passing the gates of Troy by a gifted wooden creature, the Trojan Horse.
After entering, the fighters came out when the Ilians or Iliad (Trojans) were sleeping and put the city in ruins.
As a result, Helen escaped from the destroyed city and was returned back to Menelaus as husband and wife in Sparta.
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Some legends say that Paris forcibly abducted Helen; others that she fell in love with him and went willingly. In one peculiar account, originating in Stesichorus and used by Euripides, Helen was rescued by Proteus in Egypt, who substituted in her stead a phantom that sailed to Troy with Paris. Proteus then cared for Helen until Menelaus finally claimed her. In the Iliad and Odyssey, Helen becomes Paris' wife but is in sympathy with the Greeks. She is easily reconciled with Menelaus after the war, and they return to a peaceful life at Sparta.
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