For 3,000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.In her search for the identity behind this mythic figure, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes uses Homer's account of Helen's life to...
An illuminating, erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troya chronicle that combines historical inquiry and storytelling ?lanfrom one of Britain's most widely acclaimed and popular historians. As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close...