TV: Why ancient Greece wasn’t just black and white
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‘Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?” The most famous quote about Helen of Troy doesn’t come from Homer’s Iliad, but from Christoper Marlow’s play Doctor Faustus, first performed in the early 1590s.
The legend of Helen, her elopement with Paris (son of Priam, the king of Troy), ...
