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 ...

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 ...