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Love is a powerful emotion. Throughout history couples in love have caused wars and controversy, created masterpieces in writing, music, and art, and have captured the hearts of the public with the power of their bonds. From the allure of Cleopatra to the magnetism of the Kennedy’s, these love affairs have stood as markers in history. Prepare to swoon over these love stories of the centuries.She was another man’s wife, but when Paris, the “handsome, woman-mad” prince of Troy, saw Helen, the woman whom Aphrodite proclaimed the most beautiful in the world, he had to have her. Helen and Paris ran off together, setting in motion the decade-long Trojan War. According to myth, Helen was half-divine, the daughter of Queen Leda and the God Zeus, who transformed into a swan to seduce the queen. Whether Helen actually existed, we’ll never know, but her romantic part in the greatest epic of all time can never be forgotten. She will forever be “the face that launched a thousand ships.”
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“Brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate everyone.” That was the description of Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. She could have had anything or anyone she wanted, but she fell passionately in love with the Roman General Mark Antony. As Shakespeare depicts it, their relationship was volatile (“Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you,” Cleopatra said) but after they risked all in a war on Rome and lost, they chose to die together in 30 BC. “I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into it as to a lover’s bed,” said Antony. And Cleopatra followed, by clasping a poisonous asp to her breast.We’ve heard of the Wall—no, not that one, the 2nd Century AD one stretching across England—but what about Emperor Hadrian’s heart? He lost it to Antinous (far left), an intelligent and sports-loving Greek student. The emperor displayed “an obsessive craving for his presence.