Helen1.0064_Moreau

Helen1.0064_Moreau

OGCMA s.v. "Helen of Troy"
Classical Sources:
Homer Il. 3.154 ff.; passim
Homer Od. 4.220 ff. ; and 15 passim
Hesiod Catalogue of Women 65-68
Herodotus Hist. 2.112-20
Euripides Trojan Women
Euripides Helen
Euripides Orestes
Theocritus Id. 18
Vergil Aen. 2.
Ovid Met. 12.5, 13.200, 14.669, 15.232
Apollodorus Bibl. 3.10.7-22.1; Epit. 1.23, 3.5, 6.29
Pausanias 2.22.6-7, 3.19.0-20.1
Lucian Dial. Mort. 5, "Menippus and Hermes"; 27, "Aeacus and Protesilaus"

Gustave Moreau, “Helen on the Walls of Troy,” watercolor, 1886 – 1889

A queen in a blue crown and red dress, standing by a pillar, holding a flower, against a sunset sky

Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins, no. R.F. 1942–47.

Mathieu treats includes this image.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.