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An Old Soldier remembers the ten-year war at Troy and the events which led up to it: Paris, Helen, Menelaus, Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Patroclus, Hector, Cassandra, Odysseus…and the wooden horse.

Menelaus eventually arrives to rescue his wife and escape. And so, the story ends. On its face, Helen thus appears to lack some of the dynamism or intellectual heft of other, better-known tragedies.

Sparta was home to King Menelaus and Helen: once Helen of Sparta, before she was kidnapped by the Trojan prince, Paris, and became Helen of Troy. Today, Menelaus and Helen’s Sparta is empty.

Menelaus enters to meet with Helen and deliver her fate. Hecuba watches to learn of Helen's Fate. But Helen reveals that it is not her fault for all the woes that have befallen. Hecuba is to blame.

The School of Theater displays power and strength in the performance of the Greek tragedy, “The Trojan Women.” ...

Helen recounts to Paris her dreams; Hermes washes up in our world and is spoken to by a trippy, Keatsian “pair of livid lips”; Menelaus and his wife Helen have an odd arithmetic class.

Bettany Hughes is an historian, broadcaster, and author of Helen of Troy, Goddess, Princess, Whore (Pimlico 2013). Here, she writes about the myth of Helen as explored through the ages ...

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