6/10/2023 0 Comments Helen of Troy by Bettany HughesIn Greek mythology, Helen of Troy, also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or Nemesis), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. The spectacular shrine to Helen in Sparta, to the archaeological site in modern Turkey that will be forever linked with The feature-lengthĭocumentary takes in some of the most beautiful scenery of the ancient world, from the magnificent citadel at Mycenae and Reveals just how a pre-historic princess in Bronze Age Greece - a real Helen - would have looked. Hughes argues that many images of the mythic Helen,įrom Hollywood movies to romantic paintings, have got her all wrong: Helen was the original sex goddess. Love affair and ended with a bloody and disastrous conflict. Very human drama, interweaving pleasure and pain, sex and violence, love and hate: a tale that started with a messy She is 'the face that launched a thousand ships' the woman blamed for the Trojan War - a conflict that causedĬountless deaths - but who was the real Helen of Troy? Bettany Hughes travels across the eastern Mediterranean toĭisentangle myth from reality and find the truth about the most beautiful woman on earth.
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