The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court with Paris, a Trojan prince. Helen is the wife of Menelaus - King of Sparta - and he musters an army led by his brother Agamemnon to ...

return Helen immediately or face war. Menelaus returns to find that Helen has gone to Troy with Paris. It turns out that when Menelaus married Helen her father insisted that all her other suitors ...

That Witch Helen is part of SE Fest, a new festival based in south east London to promote and celebrate new writing co-hosted ...

including the renowned Helen of Troy, amid themes of destiny, heroism, and human agency, particularly within the context of the legendary Trojan War. Among the characters immortalised in paint was ...

Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was a larger-than-life figure, discovering Troy in what is now Hisarlik, in modern-day ...

The tragic consequence is told in the second painting, in which Prince Paris meets the beautiful Helen - a union Cassandra knows will doom them all in the resulting Trojan War. BBC/Tony Jolliffe ...

But she finds the clue to the Trojan War not in Paris’ seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks, whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization ...

In Pat Barker’s salty retelling, Homeric grandees like Odysseus, Paris, and Achilles are dismissed in passing as venal brutes ...

Though the language is easy to imagine as the foundation for a more ostentatious spectacle, the sweeping narration is deftly ...

“Lumen: Helen Pashgian” centers around the differing uses of light throughout the development of human civilization, capturing the evolution of both life and art. (The Getty) “Lumen: Helen Pashgian” ...