Regina’s Reviews > Mythica: A New History of Homer's World, Through the Women Written Out of It > Status Update

Helena did WHAT?! In canon Iliad, she called out Aphrodite for abducting her and told her to be Paris's sex doll insteaad! A fucking goddess! Why did none of the retellings I read say how badassly sharpmouthed Helena is and instead made her selfish at best and slutty or evil at worst? And she was also worshipped later in Sparta as in FORGIVEN by Menelaos and her people