Talk:Helen of Troy
Helen v. Helen of Troy
I suggest the entry for this Helen be entitled Helen of Troy, which is how she is most commonly known. user:Deb
- I agree. Ruakh 17:48, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Might be premature because we don't have enough other entries under "helen" to warrant a disambiguation page. Ellsworth 22:44, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
- How is that a justification for not titling the article with the name by which nearly all readers will look for it and all writers will link to it? Regardless, there seem to be enough other Helens for disambiguation. --Tysto 05:24, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
- I agree, should be Helen of Troy. --JW1805 (Talk) 05:56, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Origin of the Helen myth
I have removed the following paragraph, which as far as I can tell is not mainstream (or even not-so-mainstream) scholarship. Moreover, the language "was believed to be" doesn't tell us who initially believed her to be this.... --Macrakis 03:48, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Helen was believed to be initially the chief mother-goddess worshipped through the area, until the arrival of the Dodecatheon. Then, she was replaced by Zeus, and her role was demoted and 'survived' through mythology only to the most beautiful woman of the world.
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Dates
So the Trojan War started in 1194BC? Glad we cleared up centuries of scholarly debate there. Would be quite nice if someone could cite a source for this astonishing discovery.
If not, shall we just stick to saying that many scholars consider it to have taken place sometime between 1300 BC and 1200 BC, as the Trojan War article does? The timeline could be given in a "0: birth of Helen; +12 Helen abducted..." format.
sjcollier 11:16, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- Apologies for the tone of that, I was having a bad day. My point still stands, though: this timeline is faintly absurd.
The source is the timeline of Eratosthenes. As it already says in the Trojan War article. This is not a newfound discovery but the traditional date. User:Dimadick