Helena Earrings

These gorgeous earrings are both elegant and fun, and with them we have revived incredible Roman ingenuity in jewelry design: the bottom sphere is a dangle, so it moves when you do! These earrings are based on a Roman example of the first century AD.

"Helena" was the Latin name for the Greek queen Helen, who was, like our little Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. Legend has it that it was the abduction of this Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, that started the Trojan War. She was often described as "Helen of the beautiful hair." - Pindar, Olympian