![]() ![]() Helen of Troy, then, was a popular figure among classical writers, and universally renowned as the most beautiful woman in the world. (Euripides derived this idea from Herodotus, the historian.) ![]() Another classical text which offers a slightly different take on the whole business was Euripides’ play Helen, which has the real ‘Helen of Troy’ (really a misnomer, of course, since she was technically, and legally, Helen of Sparta) whisked off to Egypt for the duration of the Trojan war, and the ‘Greeks’ and Trojans fighting over a phantom. Yevgeny Prighozin, the boss of the Wagner Group, has issued a warning to. ![]() There were numerous riffs on this idea in classical literature, the most famous of which, of course, is Homer’s Iliad, often considered the founding text of Western literature. of Troy with a kind of unworldly attraction and physical perfection of a woman who could drive men to war, the face that launched a thousand ships. The Russian defence ministry has said a warship guarding Black Sea pipelines was attacked by unmanned Ukrainian boats. ![]()
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