HELEN OF TROY: Was this the Face that Launched a Thousand Ships? In Real Life- Mortal Faces
How Could Helen of Troy have Looked in Real Life? In this Video I transform some of her portraits to see how she might have looked if she were those women in real life. As always, I also dive into her story a bit to give you a little history.
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Helen of Troy is the story of Zeus' daughter with Leda, a human Princess. It occurs around 1200BC in ancient Greece. The story contains many famous Greek mythological figures including, Hercules, Achilles, Aphrodite, and Cupid. Helen of Troy is married to Menelaus and the two become the next King and Queen of Sparta. 10 Years later, Helen gets abducted by Paris, Prince of Troy, and is taken to Troy. This beings the Trojan War to try and get her back, introducing the famous Trojan Horse.
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@herryblackstudio
10 ай бұрын
Helo selamat malam apa kabar sahabat ku selamat dangtag bergabug dengan herry Terimah kassih oky sahabat ku🙏🙏💞💐💐🙏🙏
There's no way to tell what Hellen looked like. And don't forget, the ancient Greek idea of beauty was vastly different to ours today.
@commandant4937
2 жыл бұрын
that's how she was described in ancient text though
@venanziocalise946
2 жыл бұрын
Yes long black hair is considered beautiful in Greece.
@venanziocalise946
2 жыл бұрын
@@commandant4937 what text?
@cutypie878
2 жыл бұрын
Noah/Ziusudra the patrichal father of human world after great flood is white.
@meep3035
2 жыл бұрын
Venanzio Calise The only reference we have to Helen’s hair color is by Sappho, who describes Helen as “ξανθή” (xanthḗ). This word is usually translated as “blonde-haired,” but it could be used to describe “reddish blonde-haired.” The only other detail of her features I’m aware of is a reference to her eyes as “κυανῶπις” (kyanôpis), or gleaming blue eyes. So Helen was imagined back then as blonde and blue eyed.
Helen was an attractive woman, but what made her ‘perfect’ was the fact the was Spartan. Spartan women were educated, exercised a lot and were of strong character - it is the entire package which made her the most beautiful woman in the world, not just a pretty face.
@GuamTippedOver
Жыл бұрын
HA! she was dumb as a stump - I know I used to get stoned with her
@WhitneyDahlin
Жыл бұрын
But if that's what made her so perfect to the Greeks then why didn't the Greeks educate and allow their women to exercise? If that's really their ideal woman why would they go out of their way to prevent women from having their ideal qualities?
@kylemartin7727
Жыл бұрын
@@WhitneyDahlin cause of control! Spartan women had way more rights and freedom than any other women of their time period
@Athanatoi
Жыл бұрын
@@kylemartin7727 Other Spartan women are not Demigod like Helen. This why no other Spartan women considered as the most beautiful in the world.
This is super interesting & informative. What about doing artists like Jacques Louis David, Courbet, Van Gogh, Cezanne … we only have their self-portraits. It would be interesting to see them animated.
@annpulbrook9033
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Marat from the painting Death of Marat would be interesting.
@PeterWoodstorrechianca
2 жыл бұрын
Photos of Van Gogh exist he looks nothing like the self portraits
Stesichorus maintains that Helen was not taken to Troy at all but a substitute was sent to give Menelaus and more importantly, Agamemnon an excuse to wipe out Trojan influence and take over the eastern trade routes. Greek mythology is a sometimes infuriating study.
I've always been fascinated by Helen of Troy (Sparta). Thank you and I love your work!!
The first painting by pre raphialite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti had quite a few muses he used to model his paintings. Jane Morris, wife of arts and crafts movement creator William Morris was a common muse. Photographs exist of her so you can actually look them up easily and see how she looked. Other women were also used as muses as well :) just a tidbit
I like her. Was said to be blonde blue eyed and very aware and somewhat regretful of all the problems her beauty caused
Zeus is always the Glen Quagmire of ancient Greece😂😂😂
To this day I will never understand how Piritous could lack so much braincells that he thought he could kidnap the queen of the dead! Forget Cerberus or Hades Persephone would have just turn them into the chalkout lines.
Some of these painted portrayals were more ship-launching than others :D 👍 🌊⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵🌊 Love your work!
@stephanierevell8050
2 жыл бұрын
Ship-launching 😊😊
I’m so happy you did this story. I’d like to think she was as beautiful as in your creations. ☺️
I really enjoy your videos, so glad that I stumbled upon your channel! ❣️ Your content is always so intresting and informative, such a pleasure to watch ✨
Really good video! So much better than your competition. Always look forward to your videos coming out.
Bouddica the Celtic Queen please!!!
@gonefishing167
2 жыл бұрын
That’d be a good one 👍👍👍👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@mimiduquette8786
2 жыл бұрын
Yes!! I've always been fascinated by her!!
@mimiduquette8786
2 жыл бұрын
Marie Antoinette, please!!
Fascinating!!!🌟
Just recently subscribed to you're channel and it's very interesting. I love history and would truly like to see Aethelflaed ( Lady of Mercia) would be very interesting to see a video based upon her.
So, from what I gather, "daughter of Zeus" or any other god was a euphemism for extramarital.
@1911Zoey
2 жыл бұрын
That's one sensible way of looking at it.
I always enjoy your vdeos.
Thank you for what you do. The animation and colorization is wonderful to watch. I know there are those who say we really don't know how they looked. However, the history is still very interesting.
Hmmmmm... King of Egypt protected her? Maybe her real dad not Zeus?
@chatonmignon8724
2 жыл бұрын
At that time it was what all the young girls said who found themselves pregnant before marriage! ^^
Thank you for this video. Lovely! I’d love to see Lady Jane Grey next.
Greek Mythology always interested me It was always a great read to me in school
The art of the times had different ideals of beauty.
@annemurphy9339
2 жыл бұрын
Not really - that face is still ideally beautiful in modernity.
@nah_.
2 жыл бұрын
@@annemurphy9339 she's definitely beautiful but she wouldn't be considered as beautiful as she was back then
@trishmagenta883
2 жыл бұрын
The beauty standard today is fake breasts, fake ass, fake hair, fake eyelashes etc 😂
@NotLikeUs869
Жыл бұрын
@@annemurphy9339 yeah, if you’re into cross dressing men. She looks very strong in the face, masculine looking.
Thank you Mortal faces 🙏❤️
Helen of Troy : that face launched a thousand ship
I have been asking other channels like this about doing Confuicus,Lao Tzu Buddha Sun Tzu and Rumi I would love to see the faces of those who gave us so many beautiful words Hildegard of Bingen would be most appreciated
Would like to see Nell Gwyn. Katherine Swynford, joan the fair maid of Kent, Catherine of Braganza., Barbara palmer, Diane De Poitier. Just some suggestions, thank you! Your postings are do interesting! Thank you
@angelavanhorn2325
2 жыл бұрын
😂😂🤣🤣✌️👍💋
Informative vid but her face is definitely not worth picking a fight much more launching a thousand ships lol
@lifeinthevoid1595
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah definitely no 'face' is 🤔
@veruschkadahmer1805
2 жыл бұрын
Really? I found every one of those portraits magnificent. I love that they don't have the boring, symmetrical Instagram face. They all have a unique face shape, proportions and bone structure. Those faces were gorgeous
@mdj2742
2 жыл бұрын
As a Demi-goddess, her divinity adds to her appeal. She almost sounds like a walking Siren, her song (face) was captivating but the end always brought about destruction.
@GypsyInTheHood
2 жыл бұрын
Amen
I couldn’t help but notice that she has a nice copper hair colour in some of the paintings :)
Those greek gods were as delinquents and immorals as we Humans are!
@melbae.1124
Жыл бұрын
@علئ ياسر middle east men are the same as any men. They're humans too.
Thanks 😊
ever wonder if anciet royalty just blamed illegimated pregnancies (children) on Zeus? I'd be like 'no honey it's not what you think. You see one day Zeus showed up as a (insert random animal here) & now this happened
Just beautiful the way it came out!!! Would love to see one about Jane Austen please??
@venanziocalise946
2 жыл бұрын
She was plain.
@veronicadebell4739
2 жыл бұрын
@@venanziocalise946 hmm thats too bad you think that. Still would like to see it….
@lakshmivaidyanathan2254
2 жыл бұрын
@@venanziocalise946 possible like Cleopatra
Helen of Troy had "resting beach 😒 face" 🤣🤣🤣
@doraglasberg1287
2 жыл бұрын
I heard she looked like Phyllis Diller - they had different beauty standards then.
She resembles Kate hudson
@laurenhodges6411
2 жыл бұрын
At the portrait at 2:24, I see Emmy Rossum. All of them are beautiful, though!
@douglasmiller8176
2 жыл бұрын
IDK, a blonde version of a young signorina podesta?
Самое красивое лицо Елены - со статуи. Особенно прекрасны глаза!
Could you please do the the last Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano
She looks like Kate winslet in titanic.
The statue come to life was the most attractive
My face can launch a thousand missiles 😟
@claireli88
Жыл бұрын
@علئ ياسر Chinese
Thank you, from Scotland. Mary Queen of Scots. Sultanas of The Ottoman Empire.
@JediSimpson
2 жыл бұрын
Mary, Queen of Scots: kzread.info/dash/bejne/anampbFtmZzFdso.html
Goddess of love was quite beautiful no doubt.
That looks a hell of a lot like Gillian Jacobs
4:40 LOL She pulled a Phryne? Is that how Phryne got the idea? Have you done Phryne? The painting im thinking of is from the back but like there's definitely a ton of her face too
helens beauty could launch a thousand ships. a millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch 1 ship.
so she's a nephelim, and she's currently talking around disembodied. noice to know.
Cute. Please, Venus de Milo.
Wait the Gods weren’t real. I’m confused. Did they just call themselves Gods?
@tth1995
Жыл бұрын
Yes
Playing God of War, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Reading God's & Heros of Anicent Greece Made me a fan of Greek Mythology
I'd like to see Mary Boleyn and Frances Stewart en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Stewart,_Duchess_of_Richmond
Octavia the young
In the first one She looks like a blonde Shannon Doherty
Marie luise d Orleans please ( Wife the charles II spain )
She surely looked in the myth like that!!!!
Interestingly if you say "Helen the face that launched a thousand ships" people in Italy where I live have never heard this saying, is it only English speakers?
She was pretty
I imagine Monica Belluci as Helen even though she's Italian
@Mukkki
2 жыл бұрын
"una faccia, una razza" (Greeks and Italians, one face one race). And it's just because generally speaking, they look similar.
Why are
🇮🇹🤔HOMER IN THE BALTIC THE NORDIC ORIGINS OF THE ODYSSEY AND THE ILIAD (google translate) The real scenario of the Iliad and the Odyssey is identifiable not in the Mediterranean Sea, where it gives rise to innumerable inconsistencies (a systematically cold and disturbed climate, battles that continue during the night, blond heroes wrapped in heavy wool cloaks, rivers that invert their course, the flat Peloponnese, islands and unobtainable peoples ...), but in northern Europe. The sagas that gave rise to the two poems come from the Baltic and Scandinavia, where in the second millennium BC. a splendid Bronze Age flourished and where many Homeric places are still identifiable, including Troy and Ithaca; the great navigators who in the sixteenth century BC brought them to Greece, following the collapse of the optimum climate. founded the Mycenaean civilization: they rebuilt their original world in the Mediterranean, in which the Trojan War and other events of Greek mythology took place, and perpetuated from generation to generation, then transmitting it to subsequent eras, the memory of heroic times and of the deeds performed by their ancestors in the lost homeland. The writing of this ancient oral tradition, which took place following the introduction of alphabetic writing in Greece, around the eighth century BC, then led to the drafting of the two poems in their current form.
They've never find any proof of a Spartan Queen named Helen.
Make latinoamerican heroes in real life! Bolívar, artigas, sarmiento, etc!
@beatrizzarate8703
2 жыл бұрын
San martin
Oh well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If I were to picture Helen, her face would look like Natalie Portman or Gal Gadot. So sorry for the thousands of lives who perished on that war caused by one woman.
@joohimurmu1585
2 жыл бұрын
Also in Ramayana they fought for Goddess Sita against Lankapati Rawana.
more like the face that sunk a thousand ships
Jesus christ bro I'm used to you doing this with portraits not fucking statues that thing was uncanny lolol
They all look like from mexican telenovela
@datujhamusman9855
2 жыл бұрын
Not that obvious..
The second face looks like Britney Spears
Uh, Kate Hudson?!
Oh! I never knew the people of Greece where germanic 😉
@peterjobovic3406
2 жыл бұрын
The Greeks in the 12th century BC had more blond people among themselves than they do today. So yes, Helen of Troy could have been blonde.
@annemurphy9339
2 жыл бұрын
@@peterjobovic3406 So few realize this and make such foolish commentary. The ancient Grecians were very fair - a beautiful people.
@Mukkki
2 жыл бұрын
Alexander the great was blonde. Not everyone who is blonde is germanic. Being blond is not bad. We are not evil or bad people
@annemurphy9339
2 жыл бұрын
@@Mukkki Can’t understand why you’re even offering excuses: blonde is beautiful, and companies pocket over 30-billion dollars a year in just the USA from the hair coloring market, with a huge chunk of this revenue coming from selling blonde-in-a-bottle.
@shop-a-holic3194
2 жыл бұрын
@@Mukkki 😩Oh lord! Do you also believe in unicorns? Please, trace his ancestory and u will see something. 😉
SO! They went to war for an average? looking chick? Somebody lied..
@Lilita971
7 ай бұрын
In those days, voice and personality were part of the beauty standards too, which I don't think is such a bad thing, and besides, "most beautiful woman in the world" may have only meant in *their known* world
She was said to be beautiful, she did cause ruckus jjj
It's interesting that they keep choosing to put her in pink... Pink was a traditionally masculine color, and the old masters did nothing without reason
If the Trojans and Greeks were to time travel, they would find better things to SIMP for?
Catherine the Great
@MortalFaces
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. I did do Catherine the Great; an earlier recreation of mine: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dYmJ18Wse5TWgaQ.html
So she like a goddes so men went crazy 🤣
I always wonder if she really was real person it was over trillion years ago but I guess always interested in Greek mythology but who knows aliens probably built paryamids so long ago but so interesting.
@veruschkadahmer1805
2 жыл бұрын
Trillion years ago ? Not that much, mate. It was only few thousands of years ago. Trillions years ago were dinosaurs :')
@aspeninc.8803
2 жыл бұрын
@@veruschkadahmer1805 Oh, maybe dinosaurs lived in paryamids lol
Why are the paintings so crappy? Didn't they have masters paint these ppl?
@thedragon12
2 жыл бұрын
You talk as if you could do even 10% of that...
3rd one was the most beautiful.
Heh! A lot of beautiful faces now would’ve launched a million ships then
Since Zeus was not real, Helen was not real. Therefore, she could look like anything. They never existed. Greek Mythology
It's weird how they combine Hermes with Aphrodite. To make the word Hermaphrodite. 😒
In the first portrait, the model is a man. Big hands. Adam's apple. Jawline. Many beautiful models were young men....
she's not that pretty.
@Lilita971
7 ай бұрын
In those days, voice and personality were part of the beauty standards too, which I don't think is such a bad thing, and besides, "most beautiful woman in the world" may have only meant in *their known* world
Greek Women are anything but Beautiful and everyone who ever Travelled to Greece can clarify this fact !
"Most Beautiful EUROPEAN woman" in the Greek world, because somewhere else with other men of other races, she may not of been THAT beautiful 🤷.