Helen of Troy.....The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
Helen of Troy.....The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships . In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy is a character in Homer's epic poem, the Iliad. ... However, there is no solid evidence to suggest that Helen was a real person. The first written record of Helen is in the Iliad but the origins of the myth that surrounds her dates back to the Bronze Age. Helen of Troy almost certainly never existed as a historical figure. The Iliad and the Odyssey were probably mostly composed during the early seventh century BC, but the events they describe are set in the twelfth century BC, roughly five hundred years earlier. We have solid archaeological evidence that Troy was indeed a real city, but nothing to support the historicity of the Trojan War, nor do we have any evidence to support the existence of any of the individual characters in the poems. The characters in the Iliad and the Odyssey and in later Greek legends about the war, are all almost certainly fictional, including Helen. The who