Bettany Hughes is an historian, broadcaster, and author of Helen of Troy, Goddess, Princess, Whore (Pimlico 2013). Here, she writes about the myth of Helen as explored through the ages ...

Helen is the wife of Menelaus - King of Sparta - and he musters an army led by his brother Agamemnon to sail to Troy to take Helen back. The war lasts for 10 long years, during which time the main ...

Mustachioed fourth grade servers with chef’s hats, aprons and order pads were busy all night attending to the families who ...

Helen, the wife of Menelaus (the king of Sparta), would end up having an affair with Paris that caused the well-known Trojan War. The room’s black walls where the frescoes were found had been ...