Random comment. I hve just discovered (from "Word Watch" in yesterday's Times), that there is a measure of female beauty called a "Millihelen". It is based on the idea that Helen of Troy had "the face that launched a thousand ships". So a woman with a rating of one millihelen would have a face to launch one ship. Applying the scale to this Helen, I feel she would be lucky to launch a rownig boat, and if she did, it would probably be because the rower was trying to paddle away from her.