The Iliad epic
We read in the epic The Iliad that Helen of Sparta was considered one of the most beautiful women on earth. A large number of Greek kings proposed to her, but she chose among them King Menelaus, the king of Sparta, as her husband.
After that, this woman fell in love with Paris, the son of the King of Troy, because of the magic of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of beauty. She fled with him to Troy, causing a war that lasted for ten years! Where the Greek army sailed and burned all of Troy because of it.
This is the story of the girl who made cities burn, and men fought over her, until the blood of tens of thousands of brave warriors spilled! ...
The painting "Helen" as painted by Frederick Augustus in 1867
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