Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē), also known as Helen of Troy, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, and in Latin as Helena, was a figure...
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Helen of Troy is a 2003 British-American television miniseries based upon Homer's story of the Trojan War, as recounted in the epic poem, the Iliad. The...
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Helen of Troy Limited is an American publicly traded designer, developer and worldwide marketer of consumer brand-name housewares, health and home, and...
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Helen of Troy is a 1956 American-Italian-French epic historical drama film, based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It was directed by Robert Wise, from a...
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right to Helen. The Trojan and Greek armies meet outside of Troy. During a parley, Paris offers to personally duel Menelaus in exchange for Helen and the...
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Helen of Troy is the sixth solo studio album by the Welsh rock musician John Cale, released in November 1975. It was the last of his three studio albums...
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Paris (mythology) (redirect from Alexander of Troy)
to retrieve Helen from Paris in Troy is the mythological basis of the Trojan War. This triggered the war because Helen was famous for her beauty throughout...
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Helen of Troy is an 1898 painting by the English artist Evelyn De Morgan depicting Helen of Troy; it was commissioned by William Imrie of Liverpool. Compositionally...
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Helen of Troy is a figure from Greek mythology: Helen of Troy may also refer to: People Helen Wellington-Lloyd (born 1954), performer associated with...
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy is a 1927 American silent comedy adventure film about Helen of Troy based on the 1925 novel of the same name by John...
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Trojan War (redirect from Battle of Troy)
(Greeks) against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events...
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Troy: Fall of a City is a British-American historical drama television miniseries based on the Trojan War and the love affair between Paris and Helen...
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Brian Johnson (category 24 Hours of Daytona drivers)
like Rodgers and Hammerstein", has been working on a musical version of Helen of Troy with Sarasota Ballet choreographer, Robert de Warren. The musical is...
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Solar Power (album) (redirect from Helen of Troy (song))
from the album, coinciding with the official release of the album's bonus tracks, "Helen of Troy" and "Hold No Grudge". To promote Solar Power, Lorde...
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Helen Wellington-Lloyd, also called Helen of Troy, is an actress originally from South Africa. She is most notable for being a follower of punk band Sex...
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Tyndareus (category Mythological kings of Sparta)
Castor, Clytemnestra, Timandra, Phoebe and Philonoe, and the stepfather of Helen of Troy and Pollux. Tyndareus had a brother named Hippocoon, who seized power...
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Trojan War in literature and the arts (category Cultural depictions of the Trojan War)
Helen of Troy by Evelyn De Morgan Fifty Days at Iliam by Cy Twombly, painted in 1978 Sketches of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, illustrating the fall of Troy...
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the BBC/Netflix miniseries Troy: Fall of a City, in which she portrayed Helen of Troy. In 2020 she was cast in the role of Red Spear in the Netflix original...
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Helen or helen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Helen may refer to: Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world Helen...
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Mexico, Puerto Rico and Latin America, the rights were acquired by Helen of Troy Limited - for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, the rights...
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Nicostratus (mythology), a son of Menelaos by Helen of Troy or a slavewoman Nicostratus (comic poet), son of Aristophanes, a poet of the Middle Comedy (4th century...
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Vicks (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2017)
divested the Vicks VapoSteam U.S. liquid inhalant business and sold it to Helen of Troy in 2015. In German-speaking countries (apart from Switzerland), Vicks...
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be the root of all evil. About thirty years before this play, Herodotus argued in his Histories that Helen had never in fact arrived at Troy, but was in...
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Menelaus (category Mythological kings of Sparta)
descendant of Pelops son of Tantalus. He was the younger brother of Agamemnon, and the husband of Helen of Troy. According to the usual version of the story...
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Troy or troy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Troy was a legendary city described in Homer's Iliad. Troy may also refer to: Troy (given name) Troy...
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Trojan Horse (redirect from Wooden horse of Troy)
insulted by sleeping with his wife in front of the "divine image". In the Odyssey, Homer says that Helen of Troy also guesses the plot and tries to trick...
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Priam (redirect from Priam of Troy)
Sack of Troy: Pyrrhus Killing Priam by Franz Cleyn Achilles and Priam, in conversation outside of Troy by Lucas Vorsterman II In film Helen of Troy - played...
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Rufus Sewell (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
those in A Knight's Tale, The Legend of Zorro, Bless the Child, Helen of Troy and The Illusionist. He spoke of his unhappiness about this, saying that...
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Sienna Guillory (category English people of American descent)
fantasy-adventure film Eragon, and the title role in the TV miniseries Helen of Troy. She has appeared in TV shows including Fortitude, Stan Lee's Lucky...
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A helen is a humorous unit of measurement based on the concept that Helen of Troy had a "face that launched a thousand ships". The helen is thus used to...
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