Behold Athens, Rome, Ithaca, Troy; Homer, Virgil, Cicero; Pompey and Hannibal; cities and poets and heroes! It was, in those early days, a liberal education to be born in any one of these towns.

Let us take Troy, for instance.

When the young mind learned to spell it, the young mind yearned to know what Troy signified.

Then came Homer, with his heroic fairy-story of gods, demigods and mortals.

Of one thing you may be reasonably sure: Helen was kept religiously in the background.