[Carry_Okie]

Helen as “the face that launched a thousand ships” would be the Iliad, Elon, not the Odyssey.

Sheesh.

[proust]

Right, I think we’re talking Penelope here.

[TexasGator]

“Helen as “the face that launched a thousand ships” would be the Iliad, Elon, not the Odyssey.

Sheesh.”

He wasn’t quoted and your reference to the Iliad is incorrect. Sheesh.

[Jeff Chandler]

The phrase “the face that launched a thousand ships” comes from Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, not from Homer, and Marlowe is clearly referring to the Trojan War. That story does belong to the Iliad tradition.

But a faithful Odyssey film includes Helen, since she was indeed a character in the Odyssey.

[Ahithophel]

Helen as “the face that launched a thousand ships” would be the Iliad, Elon, not the Odyssey.

Speaking of odysseys, Monica was the face that launched a thousand subpoenas.>

[Ahithophel]

Helen as “the face that launched a thousand ships” would be the Iliad, Elon, not the Odyssey.

Helen of Troy has the range of a rental car. She's a character in the Iliad but also appears in Book 4 of The Odyssey, featured briefly when Telemachus visits her and Menelaus in Sparta. You knew that, I presume.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[Orosius]

Actually it’s DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Marlowe.