# Helen — Discourses character guide

> Helen in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Wife of Menelaus, used in examples of beauty and conflict.

## In the story

### [XXVIII: That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What Are the Small and the Great Things Among Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xxviii-that-we-ought-not-to-be-angry-with-men-and-what-are-the-small-and-the-great-things-among-men)

Her decision to follow Alexander was based on appearance, contributing to the Trojan War.

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