Helen of Troy
The Ancients
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The Myth of Helen
In olden times of yore, a theatre light would have gells in front of it that were. these very thin layers of coloured celiphane. And you could make different colours by pudding, for example, red and blue in together. The version of helen that you see absolutely a hundred % reflects the ideals of beauty of the time in which that helen is created. Of this necessary truth, that myth is a mirror. So all myths have multiple time lines. When i wrote ships, of course it has, i hope, the bronze age when the trojan war theoretically happened - late thirteenth, early twelfth century. But then also there's the time line
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