The cause of war is Helen’s elopement from the Spartan court with Paris, a Trojan prince. Helen is the wife of Menelaus - King of Sparta - and he musters an army led by his brother Agamemnon to ...

return Helen immediately or face war. Menelaus returns to find that Helen has gone to Troy with Paris. It turns out that when Menelaus married Helen her father insisted that all her other suitors ...

including the renowned Helen of Troy, amid themes of destiny, heroism, and human agency, particularly within the context of the legendary Trojan War. Among the characters immortalised in paint was ...

The tragic consequence is told in the second painting, in which Prince Paris meets the beautiful Helen - a union Cassandra knows will doom them all in the resulting Trojan War. BBC/Tony Jolliffe ...