# Helen — The Iliad character guide

> Helen in The Iliad by Homer.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Argive Helen, fair-haired Helen

**First appearance:** 0001-the-iliad

## Who they are

Wife of Menelaus, whose abduction by Paris caused the Trojan War.

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