ABSTRACT
Reading the great tragedies that conjure up the fall of Troy, people get the impression that the judicious balance that Homer's epic poems preserved between the two opposing sides has been upset, and certainly not in favour of the victors. Yet in Homer they have second thoughts, and say they would prefer her to be sent back to Greece so that Troy might continue to prosper. What follows is no longer part of the legend of Troy, but it does go back to a very old tradition from the end of the heroic period that describes the apotheosis of Helen. Helen of Troy is a ghost and that the real Helen was in Egypt throughout the course of the war. The illusion will be broken at the behest of Helen herself who needs to be accepted such as she is, formed by her complex and contradictory legend.
