Helen of Troy
Born c. 1220 BCE
Queen of Sparta whose flight with Paris started the Trojan War.
Helen of Troy is an epic heroine from legend and epic tradition.
This is a figure of legend or epic. The dates are estimates from the setting of the story, not historical facts.
- Known as
- Epic heroine
- Category
- Legends & Epics
- Born
- c. 1220 BCE
From the same age of legend
- Aeneas Born c. 1220 BCE, Trojan hero
- Anticlea Died c. 1190 BCE, mother of Odysseus
- Diomedes Born c. 1220 BCE, Greek hero
- Machaon Born c. 1220 BCE, army healer
- Penelope Born c. 1220 BCE, epic heroine
- Phemius Born c. 1220 BCE, bard of Ithaca
Portrait: Painter of Stockholm 1999, Public domain.
