Bettany Hughes is an historian, broadcaster, and author of Helen of Troy, Goddess ... the details of the story of Helen and Paris edge just a little bit further from fairy-tale and a little ...

as his choice of Aphrodite will grant him the love of Helen and, with it, spark the Trojan War. The myth of the Judgment of Paris does not appear in Homer’s Iliad but rather in an earlier epic poem ...

Pretending to be exhausted, they are rescued by Paris and Helen and taken to the palace ... who will be kidnapped by Paris and taken to Troy. When he reaches the palace of Ulysses, which ...