Milli-helen

What is Milli-helen?


1.

A face that could launch 1 ship.

excuse the first entry, it was misspelled!

Nice kid with a sweet personality; kinda plain tho'... a millihelen.

2.

From milli-, meaning one thousanth and Helen, the name of a beautiful woman from classic literature.

Unit for measuring beauty. One millihelen is the ammount of beauty that will launch exactly one ship.

Backround information: In the epic poem "The Illiad" by Homer, Helen of Troy is considered the most beautiful woman. Her beauty was the cause the Trojan war, because a man named Paris declaired her the most beautiful, and not one of the godesses. Because her beauty caused many men to go to war (in a society that revolved around the sea and boats), it can be said that her face was so beautiful it launched one thousand ships. So, one milli-Helen would be one thousanth of a Helen, or enough to launch one ship.

Alternate spelling: millihelen

This word was used by the character Zane in Scott Westerfeld's novel "Pretties":

Zane: "What would you give the view?"

Tally: "Give it?"

Zane: "A hundren milli-Helens? Five hundred? Maybe a whole Helen?"

Tally: "I'd give it none. It's Uglyville, after all."

See millihelen, milli-helen, milli, helen, beauty


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