First, in Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships now gets to tell her story. She gains, one might say, a soul, moving from an abstract catalyzing agent for the Trojan war, into a human ...

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 ...

The Soldier watches as Paris smuggles Helen on board his ship and the Trojan fleet ups anchor. The Soldier knows how Menelaus will react when he finds out; he knows it will mean war…and that he ...

In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope, wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is portrayed as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

The Trojan War and its events provide the background ... which at the time was ruled by King Menelaus. Menelaus’ wife Helen was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

The Trojan War and its events provide the background ... which at the time was ruled by King Menelaus. Menelaus’ wife Helen was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world.