FCARHUCD4 credits The year, 1083 BCE. The place, Troy. At issue, the recovery of Helen, Menelaos’ wife and the most beautiful woman in the world, who was abducted by (or ran away with) Paris, a notoriously charming Trojan. Students will learn the fundamentals of Homeric Greek and the principles of oral poetic composition by reading significant passages from the Iliad, the first written literature of the West.