# Helen — The Odyssey character guide

> Helen in The Odyssey by Homer.

**Role:** supporting

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

**First appearance:** 0004-book-iii-interview-of-telemachus-with-nestor

## Who they are

The wife of Menelaus, whose abduction sparked the Trojan War, now reconciled in Sparta.

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