Helen of Troy | The Queen of Greek Myths

[@thetruekat6043]

Never mind the education aspect of the historical rundown, the ancient gossip analysis is so delicious and juicy and they way they talk is so open I feel like I am part of the conversation and its just fabulous!

[@thomaswebb2584]

The host/guest relationship and responsibility in Greek myths is such a wonderful thread. Heroes stop fighting one another after learning that their fathers had entertained the other's. It's the other reason Paris is doomed, for breaking this bond as Menelaus' guest.

[@austinquick6285]

yall are reading my mind.. when yall were doing the french revolution, i was reading charles dickens, tolstoy, schama, dumas, hugo...... now as SOOOON as i pick up a few translations of the ILIAD, yall wanna move on to Helen of Troy. lol, you gotta be freaking kidding me. this is great.

[@dsjwhite]

The dialogue, chit chat, humour just make this such an enjoyable series. And, real and informed history. I think you guys have squared the circle (sounds like a possible episode?) thank you.

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

I'm Greek I've studied Homer in highschool in the prototype and later read Odyssey and Iliad!One gets really obsessed by the stories! Helen is the bright one from Hel that comes Helios the sun and so Hellas name means Hel(sun)las(two L's)Las means stone or rock!By the way Eleni is one of the most usual names in Greece and elsewhere!

[@chrismichael5222]

Las also means people -laos.

[@susanmcdonald9088]

There is a new theory. One that comes out of PLASMA SCIENCE...it proposes myth & art came out of prehistoric skies, when HELIOS or SOL was actually on a closer orbit to Earth! The PLANET SATURN. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmiocp-KmL95rbssi=TGWqiRtfl7Zx2WHg

[@kt0062]

Literally been spending my Sunday afternoon listening to the Custer collection on Spotify - already 4 episodes in - these two gents are top lads

[@gustavderkits8433]

Thesis: Helen , Klytemnaestra, Penelope, and Arete, at least, are avatars of the mother goddess. Marriage to one of them confers legitimacy to a kingship. That’s why Aegisthus was treated as a king and why the suitors wanted Penelope.

[@JamesBarry-j7m]

I am Helen of Sparta, but I will become Helen of Troy, a name that will be remembered throughout eternity. Helen of Troy

[@Powersnufkin]

Havent read the Iliad have you?

[@JamesBarry-j7m]

I have. I'll be honest now I would probably get it on audiobook and listen to it while I like painted the house or something

[@fionnualac4632]

On the last point you guys discussed, I think in a way Clytemnestra as a figure does serve as a warning to women at the time to not disrupt the order of things. But she's also a warning to men not to mistreat their wives or kill their children as women with no agency have nothing to lose if the worst has happened to them. She's a warning of the madness of women who are pushed to edge I think.

[@rhino5100]

"Where the Devil can't go, he sends a woman." - Polish saying

[@joannecheckley1280]

So the murder of her husband is down to madness rather than revenge for him murdering her daughter because he thinks it'll change the weather? I think the madness comes from the men in this story!

[@sohara....]

@joannecheckley1280 Yes, and maybe she had no other option. She was having sex in the palace of Argos with a son of the family of her husband's ancestral enemy: one Aegisthos; and her husband, Agamemnon, could have killed her if he'd found out, or found a sneaky method of so doing (poison or getting someone else to do it, for example).

[@kealani6535]

Her importance as a high priestess has been practically ignored.

[@Janika-xj2bv]

"Beware of eagles carrying tortuses, Dominic" 😂

[@sohara....]

😄

[@ceilingsintheireyes6288]

Just found this channel and loved this video. I've heard of Tom before but didn't realise it was him until half way through! Great to listen to, very knowledgable.

[@LostInSweden-cc2zu]

Speaking from my Highland Scottish heritage, women had a very powerful place in clans, sometimes even to the point of having equal inheritance rights to men, simply because the men were fighting each other so often in feuds, other people's wars or just livestock raiding. One of Robert Bruce's earliest major supporters was a woman called Christina MacRuari, who was powerful in the Western Isles. Maybe the same was happening in Bronze Age Greece, which then became symbolic of a chaotic era when Greece became more politically stable. This is perhaps mirrored in the Theseus myth, where he is continuously imposing a male dominated pantheon on older matriarchal religions and cultures, from Eleusis to Crete to the Amazons in the Black Sea. if that mythological period actually reflects history, passed down through the generations by word of mouth until Homer et al finally wrote them down, then you could say that the heroic period, including Troy, was when the culture turned, which is perhaps it is so clearly remembered in the ancient Greek psyche. And incidentally, that period would have been not much more than three generations, because they all knew each other. Castor and Pollux were Helen's brothers and they were on the Argo with Jason and Herakles and Orpheus and Philoctetes. Theseus was only a generation older, and he had seen Knossos before Thera blew.. You might say that the heart of the canon of Greek mythology might have been a historical period of fifty or sixty years when the young Achaean civilisation exploded out of Greece into the surrounding world.

[@pbohearn]

Wow, this was an incredible university level lecture that I listened to in pretty much one sitting and was enthralled about 95% of the time. I am becoming a real ancient Greek and Roman nerd thank you for that illuminating discussion of Helen of Troy. By the way in high school Mounted, “the Trojan women.“ And it was a dark and tragic play but very interesting to hear now about who Helen of Troy was.

[@russellboyd9858]

I consider myself a amateur historian.im from the first state Delaware.im into alot of different historical subjects.most is European history.i started watching these getleman about the french revolution.i always say America doesn't have history compared to europe.this subject of custard i really didn't know much more then he was a civil war hero and was flamboyantly dressed.after watching this whole thing.i learned so much.espescailly about the sue and custard of course.thank u very much.u guys are awesome

[@gaillouise8310]

The name is Custer, he was a man not a pudding.

[@andreaspetrou3580]

Guys you are just a blessing to listen to

[@someoneelse293]

this upload will end up with millions of views

[@kimhaas7586]

This was amazing. Takes me back to my classical mythology days at university. I loved the background to the Iliad and Odyssey. But I think the Oresteia was just as important. Clytemnestra got a raw deal, she lost a daughter to sacrifice, her husband was an a-hole and she took matters into her own hands. Good for her. I can’t remember, did women go to the theatre back then? I can see the first play as a little something for the ladies.

[@susanmcdonald9088]

Some classicists say, nope, only men attended the theatre. I'm sure they heard the stories

[@janesmith3867]

I love these two! Always fascinating even if it's a subject I am not familiar with and they bounce off each other brilliantly.

[@pastre999]

Please do a podcast on the Russian Revolution

[@LoneWulf278]

YESS

[@beback_]

Oh my Proletariat yes please

[@johnking6252]

Achilles of heel fame ! From Greek hero to a sports injury I find your discussions of history oh so interesting and entertaining at the same time. Thanks and hopefully you can keep it up 👍

[@MRnoobpawnder]

Mate, i'll be bikepacking across Pennsylvania tomorrow while listening to this on my speaker, cheers!

[@michaelbedford8017]

Not sure the cops, who might translate your mode of transport as being 'provocative' won't give you a hard time.

[@Pablo-br7hb]

You'll be enlightening the local Pennsylvanians!

[@gerritpeacock8949]

Bettany Hughes does a few good ones on Helen of Troy. These guys don't disappoint.

[@phillipstroll7385]

The most hillbilly backwoods inbred state in the union. Bring lots of soap. So you can wash the filth from your flesh.

[@AndriaBieberDesigns]

I love PA!

[@aprilsky8474]

Best presentation on Helen of Troy. Thank you.

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

I like you both so much I wish I would hear you more often!

[@sophiaterra-ziva7891]

About the physical appearance of Helen - she’s described identically as Achilles and this is how the Thracians with their multiple tribes were described looking. Let’s not forget that the times that Homer was singing about the main original population of the lands mentioned in his Iliad were the Pelasgians (Pelops as their forefather) and other tribes who were all related, that includes the Thracian kingdoms, Trojans and the Hittites. Maybe we could look at the story of the kidnapping of Helen as simply taking her back to where she belongs, uh? Don’t forget that at that point of history, Greeks do not really exist, the war is between the Achaean kingdom and the Trojans and the Trojan’s allies who are in fact the related kingdoms of the Thracian confederation. Achilles himself is from a Thracian background.

[@Chambss88]

Amazing info! Please, more Bronze Age exploration. ✌🏻

[@robertalpy]

This is long before the rivalry between Athens and Sparta existed. Both were backwaters at the time when the Minoans were fading and the king of Mycenea was high king of greece.

[@eminentbishop1325]

But many of the narratives themselves were written during the era in which conflicts and tension were prevalent between them

[@aponorth]

This is really good!

[@thomaswebb2584]

Hitler had great disdain for archeology in Germany. When Goring (I think) showed him artifacts found by excavation, he fumed that all they proved was that Germans were living in caves while the Greeks were in decline! It seems he thought the Greeks shamed his master race theory. (If I remember correctly, Speer relays this in his autobiography. )

[@mithrandirthegrey7644]

Yes this is true. He wrote that the Italians must be laughing at Himmler for getting excited about the mudhuts of Germania. It didn’t really do much to change is world view as their way out of that was that both the Greeks and Germans looked more like Germans back then than they do now. I.e. their race was diluted. There’s probably some truth to that as many Roman emperors had blond hair and the paintings in Macedon of the locals from 500 BC sure don’t look much like modern Greeks.

[@redthered585]

Fantastic discussion and content

[@martiwilliams4592]

Thanks So much, guys for presenting these great Greek Gifts to us!!!!!!🙃😊💚💚💚

[@stevesmith8155]

Guys. This is a brilliant recap of these mythologies. I think a diagram would be helpful. Can you imagine a world without myths? We use stories for identities (contrived of course) and entertainment. We needed heroes in WW2, and so McArthur was allowed to become a big hero despite repeated cock-ups and biased actions to serve his own giant ego.

[@LondonPower]

There was a time in ancient Greece where people from across Asia Minor came to Greece in ships to steal property and women, in this time the myth of the beautiful Helen is mentioned. Then the Greeks went to steal from Asia Minor and this story was constantly repeated.

[@tommonk7651]

Wow, 2 episodes for the price of one? Greek mythology is fantastic....

[@tav9352]

I love this podcast.

[@gavinmcelroy]

I’ve listened to around 50 hours of the podcast and have only seen these fellas faces now. They look nothing like I imagined

[@elliburrows4100]

EXCELLENT! … as always

[@remidallaire7450]

:28:47 Hellen sound a bit like Circe the witch too with that potion.

[@phillipstroll7385]

You guys remind me of the bbc's in our time podcast. Sure wish they'd bring that back to KZbin, but since they've removed it from KZbin, you two will do just fine ;). Thanks for your charts. Although, I don't always agree with your opinions, I do so love hearing them.

[@sohara....]

@phillipstroll7385 9 In Our Time is still on the BBC website last time i looked; and some episodes you can download

[@williambranch4283]

I made pilgrimage to the tomb of Schlieman in Athens. I made pilgrimage to the tomb of Kazantzakis in Heraklion.

[@MS-io6kl]

1:25:01 well, arguably the building of Cyclopean Walls is a perfect answer to earthquakes. Almost nothing of the buildings inside might be left but the bloody things are still there 4000 to 3000 years and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of earthquakes (most of them minor ones) later, and still these Cyclopian Walls are standing.

[@jessica_in_japan]

This was so interesting. I was fascinated by the ancient Greece, the gods and goddesses, and the Trojan War when I was a child. I remember making a Trojan Horse out of popsicle sticks for a school project. And I constantly played an old PC game from the 90s that was about ancient Greece and the Trojan War (the characters were all animals, I think).

[@frasegfunk9790]

More podcasts on ancient greece please maybe Anthens and Sparta and Delphi

[@MarkOrne-qh6zt]

You two are starting to trend toward Dan Carlin length podcasts and that's definitely not a bad thing. Thanks for the knowledge and keep it coming - big fan of your work.

[@kaloarepo288]

The Thyestes story was taken up by Roman philosopher and dramatist Seneca (using Euripides) and indeed this influenced Elizabethan dramatists like Shakespeare specifically in "Titus Andronicus."

[@faescotland4174]

I'd forgotten about Dan Simmons books, thanks for the reminder! I liked them years ago and likely still have the books somewhere. Enjoy this presentation style, and this is fascinating, but I'll stick with Terry Pratchett's version of Helen of Troy. It's a lot simpler.

[@juliancribb813]

The Achaeans probably raided Troy for the same reason Jason and the Argonauts headed for the Black Sea - lots of native gold (and purple dye) passed down the Hellespont. But Helen makes a more elegant casus belli than mere greed…

[@susanmcdonald9088]

The Trojan war was probably a dirty little trade war; the Hittites were blocking some into the Black Sea, and Asian trade.

[@bath_neon_classical]

this is good i love listening to re-examinations of these old stories i hope its ok to mention i made a 5 minute graphic reinterpretation / representation of this mythology to some music i wrote on this (my) channel last month, cheers

[@dorissouto]

Remember that the apple was dropped by Eris, the goddess of discord! There is massive discord throughout the the Illiad on both camps at every level. Be very careful with whom you invite or not to parties!

[@Raj-et7oj]

Next topic suggestion: Joan D'Arc, Frederick Barbarosa, El Cid, Saladin, Genghis Khan, William the Conqueror, Cedric the Saxon. Please please please 🙏 🤲 🙏 🤲 🙏 🤲

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Saladin, yes.

[@eshaibraheem4218]

Super. Thanks.

[@ulrikjensen6841]

Friedrich II Hohenstaufern (Stupor mundi)

[@marys33794]

A great selection. 👍 👌

[@tarikh73]

Sultan Baibers or Timur or Akbar thr Great ...rather than Saladin

[@robertalpy]

At the time if the Trojan war it was not the Oersians who were the overlords of Troy, but the Hittites. We even have a hittite uniform text in which they talk of Walusa and how it os under siege and they will not b be able to send aid right away. This text doesn't specifically mention who is besieging Walussa(troy), but the timing and the location can only be that it is the myceneans who are attacking troy at the time of the bronze age collapse.

[@Joyride37]

Less strictly Hittite and more in the Hittite sphere of influence, among the Luwian speaking kingdoms that were independent vassals to the greater power to the east

[@fastpublish]

Re Helen's mammaries - as Dave in Minder would say "You could 'ang your 'at on them"

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

Thanks for the show although more of the things are known to me at least It's very entertaining thanks again!My grandmother and my sister are called Heleni Ελένη!!!

[@JudithReveal]

What a GREAT program!

[@2Hot2]

I had to teach a course on Greek mythology in the English Department of a university in a Muslim country and the students assumed that I, like all westerners, really believed this stuff and that i was trying to convert them!

[@Ennea9]

I thought that Muslims regardless of how they feel about West they somehow respect Greek history and culture. Let's not forget how many greek texts were copied and preserved during the islamic golden age.

[@2Hot2]

@@Ennea9 That was centuries ago. It doesn't reflect modern practices and attitudes.

[@thanosbouros2144]

Lol dangerous stuff

[@Martinor21]

You have to make a series about the peloponnesian war

[@robertalpy]

I had always understood that Helen in reality loved and was happy with menolaus until Aphirdites spell put a false love for paris in her heart. She even begins to see how he is not a man as Greeks understand it when she sees him fight menolaus.

[@Joyride37]

And Helen loving Paris was still a later addition. All that really happens in the earliest version is Aphrodite awarded Helen to Paris for choosing Aphrodite in the test. Helen’s consent or desire is never mentioned. She was kidnapped

[@remidallaire7450]

:1:18:12.. I saw that mask... At the Pushkin museum in Moscow in September of last year. I made a picture of it... It is supposed to be in Athens... But it is in Moscow as of last year and is probably is still there. As we speak. *Wink* oh and Priams treasure was there too. By the way.. I'm Remi.. studied Greek and Roman studies at the university Laval of Quebec.. your podcast is .. awesome. 😂😂

[@j0nnyism]

I think it’s the pin that holds the wheel onto the axle that was meant to be replaced with wax not the axles. It’s so that it would melt as it heated up and the wheel would come off. Probably a trick that was actually used at the games at some point

[@kennethvick9447]

This is a great channel 😮.

[@safruddinaly5822]

I hope someday you can male video about diomedes one of the hero in illiad, video about this guy really rare. Thank you for the video as usual

[@iliasmastoris529]

So, drunken young men fighting over a pretty girl outside a pub. Male spider dies to betroth the black widow. Universal truths.

[@vaughanlockett658]

Even back then the lads understood the risks it takes to be married to a beautiful woman. My wife is Tharcian and comes from the banks of Danube. I noticed there is a difference in culture how a relationship between a man and woman is valued and they seem to have all sorts of mystery and folklore surrounding relationships .

[@michaelkennedy3372]

It is likely that the eagle that killed the great playwright Aeschylus by dropping a turtle on his bald head was a Bearded vulture (Lamergeier) which commonly drop their prey on rocks to soften them up.

[@MyTv-]

Helen of Troy is likely just the excuse not the reason for the war.

[@nickvanr.8584]

hELEN = SYMBOLISM OF "HELENISM" MENELAOS = MENOS TOU LAOU etc.....

[@fuferito]

Helen of Troy. The woman that launched one _Bronze Age Collapse._

[@jesusalvarez-cedron6581]

Stories from the conflicts between Troy and the micenians appeared earlier, also from the Hatti side. Only one greek version survived, the one that Homer wrote down.

[@bondurango]

"The Baltic Origins of Homer's Epic Tales" by Felice Vinci throws the whole tradition into question by positing the idea that the Iliad represents a migration of myth from its Scandanavian origins. Vinci proves through the book's description of climate and geography that the Iliad could not have taken place in the Mediterranean. Instead, it matches more closely to the Baltic during the period known as the Holocene Climactic Optimum (i.e. a global warming period that ended around 3000 B.C. or about 1800 years earlier than most estimates of the Trojan War) when temperatures in Scandanavia were higher but were soon coming to an end which then leads to mass migration out of Scandanavia and, into central Europe and, eventually down into Greece where the story then takes root but fails to match Mediterranean climate and geography. Ancient features of Ithaca match the small island of Lyo off the south coast of Denmark while the Mediterranean Ithaca has no resemblance at all. Ancient Troy correlates to Troja off the coast of Finland. In addition, the grave of Kong (king) Urlauses in southern Denmark correlates to Ulysses while the Danaans of Greece are the Danes of Denmark.

[@thomaswebb2584]

I always thought it interesting that if Helen was 12, then so were her brothers. Were they already heroes and Argonauts (is being stuck in Hades the reason Theseus doesn't join? We know Herakles rescues him on his Labor to collect Cerberus, so that fits). Also, if Clytemnestra is her twin, then wouldn't she be as beautiful as Helen, although not god-gifted?

[@davegold]

I think a fatal mistake of this podcast is to present all the myths together without distinction. They are not one narrative but a vast number of different myths told by different authors in different centuries, all presenting a different political perspective. The story of Theseus, as you observed, does not weave well into the story of Trojan war so those are probably different myths created in different cities/nations.

[@thomaswebb2584]

@davegold oh absolutely! He was definitely Athens' favorite 'son', and therefore he became tied to myths he might never have been a part of. Actually, amoung the Argonauts, there are, at times, numerous additions whose names and stories are tied to city/states of the period, just to 'establish' their place in the great epic!

[@remidallaire7450]

:57:50... Yeah that story involve cannibalism (unknown cannibalism) if I remember well.

[@gustavderkits8433]

Read the Odyssey as well for context. Helen is a member of a class of queens who were tree godesses. Helen, Clytemnaestra, Arete, Penelope, Circe, and Calypso have a lot in common.

[@johnhaynes9910]

Helen of Troy is not real ? Next you'll be saying there is no Father Christmas, Beowolf, King Arthur or Robin Hood !!! Another excellent episode and well done as ever :)

[@skadiwarrior2053]

No Father Christmas! You mean some strange man has been leaving me little presents every year. Should I call the police?😮

[@johnhaynes9910]

@@skadiwarrior2053 Brilliant, in a word, probably :)

[@blobrana8515]

Perhaps the name Helen means 'silvery/moon/shining' and may relate to the metal Tin from the black sea supply route. Tin was a strategic metal in the bronze age.

[@Olybob]

Rorke´s Drift Mutiny on the Bounty Please

[@nickvanr.8584]

Helen = Helenism , read Hemerus in a n a different way, Menelaos = menos tou laou ... wisdom is in the words ..

[@nickvanr.8584]

troy is Troia or 3,(three)

[@juliejuratovic5540]

Yes. Helen is an example of feminine power, not a victim.

[@JamesDimond-l7u]

Check out Dr. Ammon Hillman at Lady Babylon

[@robertalpy]

Menolaus is the brother of Argememnon. Doesn't being the only brother of the high king of the Greeks give him status beyond helen?

[@raywhitehead730]

Likely, that Helen of Troy is an echo of when high placed women were valued for making state policies through marriage. But this deal went bad.

[@neilokeefe9647]

Speaking of shaping drinking glasses after famous chests, & to tie it back to a previous episode, isn't the myth that Marie Antoinette's breast was the mold for the champagne glass?

[@erinreily5920]

Madame Pompadour I believe

[@Tinyflypie]

Sappho is one woman. Her opinion that Helen should have stayed home and been a good mother/daughter/wife does not reflect female opinion. Plenty of women, who in the all male world of the poet would have been in favour of Helen running off and ditching a homemaker's responsibilities would have not had a voice. You would not base conclusions on one male voice, why are women seen as monolithic so that one is the voice of all?

[@carolynredinger439]

Also, in the few scrapes of Sappho we have she mentions various mythical characters, which is common in literature on either side of the Early Medieval era of Xian repression. Moreover, whatever Sappho says about Helen does not change the male gaze core of the myth.

[@Tinyflypie]

@carolynredinger439 Yes! male gaze core. Soft porn for ancient Greeks. I still reel with disgust that one female voice is seen as speaking for all Greek women. I'm sure they were as diverse as 21st-century women, despite the compulsory domesticity.

[@LTrotsky21stCentury]

Well, Tom. Talking about the "power of myth," today? Have you ever considered how much of what you believe is a myth? Especially about anything related to modern China. Why don't you, once again, talk about how modern China has "parallels" with the warlord regimes of the 4th to 2nd Centuries BC? I love it when you relate your mythological beliefs as some kind of insightful, historical, factual observation.

[@monikagrosch9632]

Ranke-Graves says in these times the kingship came through the females : so Menelaos was king as Helen’s husband. Of course he wanted her back In an analogy, Klytæmnestra had the right to kill Agamemnon after he sacrificed HER daughter, the future queen of Mycene the whole background is the coming of Dorian tribes ( male domination ) to the matriarchal Pelasgian Greeks If you read all the Greek myths with this in the back of your mind, you find a lot of ‘overcome’ matriarchy

[@Joyride37]

More matrilineality. Matriarchy as an inverse of patriarchy (where men are socially and politically disenfranchised as an entire group and rendered as property or having little rights, and this is typically reinforced through violence against them, in the way women experience under patriarchy) has never existed. Matrilineal and matrifocal societies have existed and some still exist to this day. But they’re more egalitarian than the other way around

[@alexs_toy_barn]

I want to know where Tom recommended Dominic to go in sparta now lol

[@rowanbinney7812]

Russel Crowe is in the Elysian fields? Does he still make movies there?

[@dieternowatius5062]

Custer talked animals for shure, so far as i know. He had a pelican around him on the Plains…

[@launiesoult3248]

Oh what a strange thing men and women mixing together oh my God😮

[@debgreentree]

Thanks

[@letssee5213]

Oh fucking he'll We're the ancient greèks kiddie fiddlers.. Oh fucking hell

[@kelleysmith7345]

Reminded me of claims that one can hear battles of the civil war.

[@markwarren250]

Not a bad episode. But very difficult to get through the last half with a commercial basically every 5 minutes.

[@AntelJM]

YT Premium saved me. Well worth the money. The days of watchable free videos are over.

[@DanielAluni-v2t]

Wot uh maustuhful bit o scholuhship, bloke! Uh commend thee, uh do uh do!

[@johnrohde5510]

There were various accounts of the cause of the death of Paris. One attributes it to Apollo, another to a stab in the back with a knife and the arrow is the latest version.

[@moorbilt]

12:40 woof

[@kambrose1549]

Fascinating. I began to wonder about Helen as a courtesan. She abandons her roles of wife mother and daughter and just follows the man of the moment who has to earn her favours. The whole male take on women as objects of desire and the dangerous cause of the consequences of following through on this desire has been with us since Adam. Today the attacks and murders women suffer at the hands of males asserting control and ownership show its still an issue sadly.

[@barbthegreat586]

Paris wasn't a man of the moment and a woman in a very probably arranged marriage falling for a handsome, sweet talking prince is a tale as old as time.

[@bloedblarre]

Bla

[@ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΊΑΜΟΙΡΑ]

Troy has been excavated and a letter from Priamos to the Hittites has been found and asking the Hittites king to help Troyans .So we know that Troy was Willousa of the Hittites!But this is actual history.Hellen was real and her royal family also were the Mycaneans She must have been beautiful but she was not the reason for the expedition!All the magic and myths around her are just myths! Homer wrote the poems centuries after all those people were already gone dead and their civilization fell but the stories stayed in Greece's theology and mythology!

[@KittymoreJoy]

I think Helen was a real mortal woman, she just was the excuse reason of a husband offended who must repair his reputation by taking her back. The Greeks want Troys wealth and destroyed entirely, so they make up rumours of this Helen to justify their greed. Helen may have been very pretty but I think she had sensual aura that may have been overwhelming to men. A Woman like this can have an attitude that with this ability I will use men’s lust to 54:04 survive a man dominated world. You guard your heart and never give it to a feckless male who will only see you as property, useful only until your beauty and fertile womb time is gone, than thrown away. A smart Woman in my books. You have no right to refuse a man your body but your Heart is a different matter. So use your body to your best advantage and men are offended by this. A wife in Greece is still just sex slave for the lust and advancement of men so Blame a Woman for Men’s lust for expansion and wealth. Make up a fantasy reason instead of being honest. Who said men had no imagination. 😮

[@dullsearake]

Helen in the film Troy (2005) was the most average woman on earth!

[@barronmaxxx2991]

I had to chuckle over Sappho being the only author/poet to comment on Helen and point to her responsibilities as a good wife cooking and cleaning for her husband and her family etc...I guess the first famous lesbian isn't very much into women's lib and I wonder what she would say today to her peers that say such things as "...if a woman was meant to be a maid she would have been born with a mop and pail..." No disrespect toward women, sexuality etc....I'm just pointing out the hilarity of irony.