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I don't think it was just because of her beauty, beauty is nothing in war and also don't think that Menelaus (her husband) was that stupid to sacrifice the whole country just for his beautiful wife. These are all Homer's narration. As I said above, war should have happened just to secure the...

Sad to hear that, we need other versions too:) BTW I don't think Helen was that beautiful, just for jealousy and revenge and nothing more:)

Thank you so much! You helped me a lot. "i didn't know that the other poems you mention are later then the Iliad" All I know is the authors were contemporary but they wrote them later than Homer had written Iliad. Homer's Iliad had a simple explanation and with the Cypria and Sack of ilios, we...

Hello I am new here and want to say hello to all the fellow mythology lovers! I have some questions and here they are: What is the difference between the later poems such as Cypria and The sack of troy and Homer's Iliad's cause of Trojan war? I was told that they are different but in what...