Helen of Troy
The Ancients
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Become the King of the Fricking Gods
The most usual version has zeus as her father and lada as her mother. But there are some versions where her mother is nemesis, the goddess nemesis. More usually, lader is in human form and zeus takes on swan form. I find it really interesting that we can see helen as the sort of temptress - actively so. Because she starts a war. And not only do we basically remove any responsibility from paris, which just annoys me,. but additionally, we absolutely gloss over a much uglier part of helen's story. The lights of homer, sophocles, euripides in te minute. O return.
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