Helen of Troy

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"Bettany Hughes has made some marvelous documentaries over the last decade or so. I adored her lengthy films on Athens as well as Sparta and she has a nice way of bringing history to life. Here with "Helen of Troy", the film is a bit different, as this is not necessarily history but is a blend of history and mythology. No one knows how much of the story of Helen and the Trojan War is true and how much is simply fiction or bad history. Much of the problem is that Homer's account of the war was written centuries after the fact and much of the problem is that Homer was not attemptin..."