Who had “the face that launched a thousand ships”?
A) Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt B) Helen of Troy ü C) Joan of Arc D) Queen Elizabeth I of England
Helen was the wife of Menelaus, the brother of King Agamemnon of Mycenae. She eloped with the Trojan prince Paris around 1200 BC. Agamemnon and an alliance of Greek kings sailed to Troy, a walled city in Asia Minor also known as Ilium, and thus began the decade-long siege called the Trojan War. The famous “thousand ships” line is from Christopher Marlowe’s play Faustus:
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
