num_pages: 126
description: Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. Her surpassing beauty was said to have launched the Greek fleet of a thousand ships to Troy. No woman was so adored and so hated. She was seen as both prize and scapegoat, the promise of bliss and the assurance of doom.Originally written in 412BC.
language: English
title: Helen
titlecomplete: Helen
characters: Helen of Troy
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Greek Mythology, Tragedy, Poetry, Greece, Drama, Classics, Mythology
ratings_count: 2086
publisher: Oxford University Press Inc