 The German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe re-envisioned the meeting of Faust and Helen.In "", the union of Helen and Faust becomes a complex allegory of the meeting of the classical-ideal and modern worlds.In 1803, when French zoologist François Marie Daudin was to name a new species of beautifully colored snake, the trinket snake ("Coelognathus helena"), he chose the specific name "helena" in reference to Helen of Troy.