We don't usually consider starting wars or conflagrations in general a desirable quality in either women or men.
But since it was - allegedly - her beauty what prompted men to war (right...), and beauty is the start of this our journey, we might as well start with HELEN(A) and its many alternatives in many languages.
There is also another reason for that: a person whose glory the world should recognise (but didn't, not so far) - an "anonymous", but one-in-ten-million person, very very dear to our heart - was born under that noble name:
HELENA
We were going to indulge in a little dissertation of our own... but then we found THIS website and thought we'd rather simply invite you to visit it. It may not be the flashiest website around, but it has a lot of information about the name - even a "psychological profile" of those who bear the name! ;)
And here is a reasonably wide array of artistic depictions of "Helen" (of Troy fame - and others) for you to enjoy:
And if you'd still like to hang the blasted creature - on your walls, of course - try here...
P.S. At the explicit request of one of us, the fair Veronica, we are adding this utterly trivial question for your consideration. The question is: does or does not the woman depicted (another Helen, of course) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (see the image below) resemble Ross' lesbian ex-wife in the sitcom "Friends"...?
You decide.
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