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 ...

She could play both Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. Helen of Troy is known as the most beautiful woman in the world in Greek mythology. She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta, but she left ...