Beauty and the Man, by Clifford Thurlow
leer en español 'Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad' is a line often attributed to Sophocles’ Antigone.Perhaps a more appropriate version for Helen of Troy might be: 'Whom the gods would destroy they first make beautiful.' After all, her face, according to legend, launched a thousand ships.Helen was the daughter of Zeus, king of the gods, which was something of a head start in life. At the age of twelve, she was abducted by Theseus, a man twice her age. Rescued by her brothers, she eventually married Menelaus, king of Sparta, and settled into palace life.Across the Aegean, Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, was growing into a handsome young man with a rather inflated opinion of himself. When asked to judge a beauty contest between three goddesses, he awarded Aphrodite t...