Argive Helen

He sent no one to woo her in his place, but came himself in his black ship of many thwarts over the Ogygian sea across the dark wave to the home of wise Tyndareus, to see Argive Helen and that no one else should bring back for him the girl whose renown spread all over the holy earth.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

And he wrote a book in which he took away the palm of beauty from Argive Helen and handed it to poor Penelope.

Ulysses 2003

There dwelt Paris, content with the love of Oenone, until he knew himself to be the son of a king, for whom Argive Helen alone was found worthy; for his eyes had rested once upon immortal charms, of which the green eternal pines of Ida are still whispering the story.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

And after golden-haired Menelaus he offered the greatest gifts of all the suitors, and very much he desired in his heart to be the husband of Argive Helen with the rich hair.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

He sent no one to woo her in his place, but came himself in his black ship of many thwarts over the Ogygian sea across the dark wave to the home of wise Tyndareus, to see Argive Helen and that no one else should bring back for him the girl whose renown spread all over the holy earth.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

Fast he fled from the wrath of Menelaus, and he cared not to look back on the Argive Helen or the slaughter of his kinsfolk and his people.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

And he wrote a book in which he took away the palm of beauty from Argive Helen and handed it to poor Penelope.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

-- Antisthenes, pupil of Gorgias, Stephen said, took the palm of beauty from Kyrios Menelaus 'brooddam, Argive Helen, the wooden mare of Troy in whom a score of heroes slept, and handed it to poor Penelope.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Nay even Argive Helen, daughter of Zeus, would not have lain with a stranger, and taken him for a lover, had she known that the warlike sons of the Achaeans would bring her home again to her own dear country.

Book XXIII Homer 1909

So spake he, and Argive Helen bade her handmaids set out bedsteads beneath the gallery, and fling on them fair purple blankets and spread coverlets above, and thereon lay thick mantles to be a clothing over all.

Book IV Homer 1909