She’s also one of the most tenacious; from the moment when Helen first enters the record in Book 2 of Homer’s Iliad back in the Iron Age, there isn’t a single decade when she leaves the ...

triggered by the Trojan prince Paris's abduction of the Greek beauty Helen, “the face that launched a thousand ships”. However, the Iliad is hardly a romance. The abduction scene is only ...

including Homer’s epic poem The Iliad, which is at least 2,500 years old. The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court with Paris, a Trojan prince. Helen is the wife of ...