Helen of Troy 5/10

svaranā ("the shining one"). Helen’s myth dates back to the Mycenaean age. Her name first appears in the poems of Homer, but scholars assume that such myths were invented or received by the Mycenaeans, an Indo-European herder people that migrated into Greece from the North. Her mythological birthplace was the Sparta of the Age of Heroes; in later Hellenic memory, the Myceneaean Bronze Age became the age of greater men. The kings, queens and heroes of the Trojan Cycle are often related to ...