This tale is not true: you [Helen} did not even board the well-benched ships, and you did not go to the citadel of Troy.

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Stesichorus allegedly went blind after writing an account of Helen's perfidy to Menelaus in his Helen, but he was cured after he composed a palinode denying that Helen ever went to Troy and blaming Homer for the story.

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