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Helen of Troy

Helen

also: Ἐλένα, Helen of Sparta

The most beautiful of mortal women, whose flight to Troy with Paris launched the Trojan War. Sappho makes her the proof, not the cautionary tale, of the priamel in fr. 16.

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