The beauty of this woman—“who set armies on the march,” as Homer sang—did not save the world and brought happiness to no one. She was destined to sow discord and destroy civilizations. Yet for many centuries, she inspired artists and writers to create beautiful works of art. The myth of Helen of Troy was also taken up by Margaret George, author of historical bestsellers, who gave her heroine her own voice. Daughter of a god, wife of a king, the main prize in the bloodiest war of antiquity—beautiful Helen tells her story: the story of a woman who revealed her divine origins and the devastating power of her beauty, who had resigned herself to an uneventful married life, but then encountered great love and paid for it in full…