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The Many Faces of Helen
How to find an actress who can launch a thousand ships.
By Julia Turner
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Diane Kruger as Helen in Troy (2004) © Alex Bailey/Warner Bros. Entertainment. -
A bust of Homer © Archivo Iconografico, S.A./Corbis. -
A detail of a vase, or skyphos, that shows Helen's abduction and return © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. -
A wall-painting from the House of the Menander at Pompeii © Professor Ann O. Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University. -
CREDIT: The Abduction of Helen, attributed to Zanobi Strozzi, © 2000 National Gallery -
CREDIT: The Abduction of Helen (oil on canvas) by Luca Giordano (1632-1705) from Musee des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France/www.bridgeman.co.uk/Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library. -
CREDIT: The Chosen Five of Crotona, 1885 by Edwin Longsden Long (1829-91) from Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, U.K./www.bridgeman.co.uk. Not to be reproduced without permission. -
CREDIT: Helen of Troy, by Anthony Frederick Sandys courtesy of National Museums -
Rosanna Podestà as Helen and Jacques Sernas as Paris in CREDIT: Helen of Troy (1956) © Everett Collection. -
Elizabeth Taylor as Helen in CREDIT: Doctor Faustus (1967) © John Springer -
Sienna Guillory as Helen in CREDIT: Helen of Troy -
Photo of Elite model Kemp Muhl by Jennifer Tzar. -
Photograph of Natalie Imbruglia © Axel/Zuma Press; Photograph of Laetitia -
Diane Kruger as Helen and Orlando Bloom as Paris in CREDIT: Troy (2004) © Alex Bailey/Warner Bros. Entertainment.