  Spartan princess, wife of Menelaus. Helen's elopement with (or
abduction by) Paris caused the Trojan War. She was memorialized
in a famous phrase of the poet Marlowe as the face that launched
a thousand ships. When still a child, she was abducted by
Theseus and rescued by her brothers, the Dioscuri.  Another
picture.  Helen with the old Trojan king on the walls of Troy.
(zoom)