A few forays into the Detroit scene produced rhythm and blues by Sax Kari, Jimmy Hamilton, T. J. Fowler, and Helen Thompson.

She is one of a few characters who played a major part in the original cause of the Trojan War itself: not only did she offer Helen of Troy to Paris, but the abduction was accomplished when Paris, seeing Helen for the first time, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm.

The hypothesis to Isocrates ' Helen mentions that Anaximenes, too, had written a Helen, " though it is more a defense speech ( apologia ) than an encomium ," and concludes that he was " the man who has written about Helen " to whom Isocrates refers ( Isoc.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

Most people are familiar with Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf, but there has been considerable progress since the publication of her work.

Pfeiffer ( who developed scientific practices in biodynamic farming ), Paul Keene ( founder of Walnut Acres in Pennsylvania ), and Scott and Helen Nearing ( who inspired the back-to-land movement of the 1960s ).

Increasingly unstable after his wife's death, Poe attempted to court the poet Sarah Helen Whitman, who lived in Providence, Rhode Island.

The then Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, and the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, were also in attendance, and Clark was accompanied by the official NZ Defence Force party, veterans of several past wars, and 10 New Zealand college students who won the New Zealand ' Prime Minister's Essay Competition ' with their work on Gallipoli.

This woman was Helen, who was, unfortunately for Paris, already married to King Menelaus of Sparta.

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating " that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

His father was Hugh Macdonald, an unsuccessful merchant, who had married Helen Shaw on 21 October 1811.

Whale gathered as many of those as he could who had been involved in one production or another of the musical, including Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger, and, as Magnolia, Irene Dunne, who believed that Whale was the wrong director for the piece.

The matchmaker, in turn, sets him up with Helen, the town floozy, who runs off with him.

Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, the third son of Dr. Charles Hay and Helen Leonard from Middleborough, Massachusetts, who had come to Salem to live with her sister.

Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, who detests Wimsey, and their devil-may-care heir, Viscount St. George ( Wimsey's nephew, who likes him ), also make appearances in the novels, as does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter.

In other versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess who personified the disaster that awaited those suffering from the pride of Hubris.

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

" which inspired many later references to Helen ( see below ).

Concerned about the plight of Native Americans in southern California and elsewhere, and inspired by her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona was published in November 1884.

His creation of a laboratory of experimental psychology at Toronto ( which he claimed was the first in the British Empire ) coincided with the birth of his daughters Helen ( 1889 ) and Elizabeth ( 1891 ) which inspired the quantitative and experimental research on infant development that was to make such a vivid impression on Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg through Baldwin's " Mental Development in the Child and the Race.

Sarah Helen Whitman and Sarah Anna Lewis also claimed to have inspired the poem.

Her appearance was inspired by the character of Queen Hash-a-Motep from the 1935 film She, played by Helen Gahagan.

The group had $ 1, 675 left over after the exposition, and, inspired by foreign exhibits on design and interior decorating, Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf persuaded the group to donate the money to found what would become the Rhode Island School of Design.

Lambiel's museum contains a collection of works inspired by the San Juan Islands, including works by Helen Loggie.

The serial inspired author Helen Fielding to write the popular Bridget Jones novels ; the screen adaptations featured Firth as Bridget's love interest Mark Darcy.

The school was attended by Helen Keller ( Shichtman, 23 ) and Alexander Graham Bell's work at the school inspired him to begin experiments in an apparatus to help deaf children hear.

Helen ’ s Odyssey is also inspired by Greek and Roman history and draws upon the conflicted identity of Helen of Troy, who was simultaneously revered for her intense beauty yet blamed for the inability of men to resist it.

The Cohens ’ cover as antiquarian book dealers Peter and Helen Kroger is mentioned in Helene Hanff ’ s The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street because they were friends of London book dealer Frank Doel, recipient of the letters and book orders that inspired the bestseller 84 Charing Cross Road.

Helen Keller's mother, Kate Keller, read Dickens ' account and was inspired to seek advice which led to her hiring a teacher and former pupil of the same school, Anne Sullivan.

Malinalli is the main character in a historical novel by Helen Heightsman Gordon, " Malinalli of the Fifth Sun: The Slave Girl Who Changed the Fate of Mexico and Spain.

The often unconventional playwright introduces a " real " Helen and a " phantom " Helen ( who caused the Trojan War ), and gives a backstory that makes the father of his character Theoclymenus, Proteus, a king in Egypt who had been wed to a Nereid Psamathe.

* December 12 – Helen Westley, stage and film character actress ( b. 1875 )

* March 28 – Helen Westley, stage & film character actress ( d. 1942 )

She is also the protagonist of Helen Hollick's 2004 novel, A Hollow Crown ( US title, The Forever Queen ) and ( as ' Ymma ') a central character in the 1999 play Silence by Moira Buffini.

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

* In the 1956 film Helen of Troy, Paris, as the main character, is portrayed as a heroic character who at first worships peace and love but is later forced to take up arms against the treacherous Greeks.

* In the 2003 TV miniseries Helen of Troy, the character Paris, played by actor Matthew Marsden, is killed by Agamemnon.

The Love of Helen and Paris by Jacques-Louis David ( oil on canvas, 1788, Louvre, Paris ); a love that soon faded, when Helen realized that Paris is not a man of courage and strong character.

* Helen of Troy appears as a recurring character in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as the most popular student of Prometheus Academy and girlfriend of Adonis.

Lovejoy's wife, Helen was originally portrayed as a moralistic, judgmental gossip, but in voice actress Maggie Roswell's long absence her character was seen but not heard.

As Helen herself has based a character in her novel The Eye of the Storm on Martin, she is about to accuse Sandra Pickering of plagiarism when, to her dismay, she finds out that the girl used to work for the BBC some years ago, that she knew Martin, and that she actually had an affair with him.

Helen P. Foley wrote of the links between the importance of Dionysus as the central character and his effect on the play's structure, she writes: " the poet uses the ritual crisis to explore simultaneously god, man, society, and his own tragic art.

With significant alterations to the character, a version of this Aethra appears as " Aithra "), a sorceress and concubine of Poseidon, in Richard Strauss's famous opera Die ägyptische Helena ( The Egyptian Helen ).

In Helen of Troy, a novel by Margaret George, Gelanor is a fictional character who acts as an advisor to the Spartans under Menelaus.

Verna Felton, a longtime radio and TV character actor who was well known to audiences in the 1950s, had a strong supporting role as neighbor Helen Potts.

* In Helen Oyeyemi's 2007 novel The Opposite House, the frame narrative character is Yemaya or Aya for short, and the protagonist of the novel, who is of African and Cuban descent, is named Maja.

* Max Fleischer's cartoon character Betty Boop was modeled after Bow and entertainer Helen Kane ( the " boop-boop-a-doop-girl ").

Later that year, at the insistence of Milton Santee, the town was renamed Ramona, to capitalize on the popularity of the fictional character from the best seller by Helen Hunt Jackson.

* In the film Twister ( 1996 film ) the team headed by Helen Hunt's character Jo Harding was based out of the fictional Muskogee State College

The production is notable for several reasons ; besides starring Frank Morgan, the play's female lead was Helen Menken ( who would marry Humphrey Bogart in 1926 ), and in his first Broadway outing, character actor Robert Keith, father of actor Brian Keith and one-time husband of Theater Guild actress Peg Entwistle, who committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood Sign in 1932.