Helen of Troy
The Ancients
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The Demand for Helen's Return
i let her have some good moments in the trojan women scenes, and it seemed like the right way to do it. Weve kind of mentioned about those various other versions of helen that we have from antiquity. In one fragment, she says she wants to drink bull's blood, which is poison. She's talking about killing herself. Andi, this cannot be a fragment from two and ahalf thousand iis must be in the translatior si attracted and looked at the greek because it felt so modern. It just felt like it was from the wrong time in the wrong place.
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