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Conversations: Helen as the Beautiful Evil, the Kalon Kakon, w/ Alexia Burrows Charalambidou

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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Is Helen the Same as Menelaus?

I feel a bit bad for menelaus. Like, he's driven mad with this longing for helen through the power of this statue's eyes. It's this effigy of helen's not even helen, which also shows her absolute beauty and power over these men,. And obviously we see that similarly with medea, because she's destroying calos with her eyes and her thoughts. Sheis so interesting in that. What i love so much about the aragonatica is that it's so plicit that hara does it to her like that. The writer is scared of what he's writing. He's like, protect me against this evil that this woman can

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