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Culture tells us blind bard of remarkable expertise, Homer, who was once acquainted with the legends surrounding the seize of Troy and the go back of the triumphant Greek heroes, formed the stories into the huge epics often called the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer himself used to be illiterate. in line with the main believable thought, he labored within the 8th century B. C. ; his poems endured to be transmitted orally by means of bards from new release to iteration until eventually someday within the 6th century B. C. once they have been set down in written shape. even if the vagaries of the transmission of those epics needn't hindrance us right here, it may be remembered that, simply because they have been oral files, the Iliad and the Odyssey can't profitably be considered as actual histories of the overdue Bronze Age. they're finally poetic legends derived from the particular old occasion of the catch of Troy, yet also they are poetic reflections of the evolving societies and cultures of Greece. The Royal girl of Greece and Troy after all, the personage of Helen stands aside within the Trojan epic—the most lovely lady on this planet, for whom a battle was once fought. however the Bronze Age legends are pervaded with strong girl figures,2 similar to Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Andromache, and Penelope, who determine prominently within the struggle among Greece and Troy. one of the Greek queens are Helen, her sister Clytemnestra, and Penelope. comparable topics will be traced within the lives of all 3. They have been all married: Helen to Menelaus in Sparta, Clytemnestra to Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon in Mycenae, and Penelope to Odysseus in Ithaca. Helen deserted Menelaus and sailed off with the good-looking Trojan prince Paris. Led by means of Agamemnon, the Greeks made struggle opposed to the Trojans for ten years so that it will punish them, and likewise to deliver Helen again. this is often the normal reason behind the battle, in accordance with the it seems that fictional trust that Helen’s father had made all her suitors, sooner than they have been even allowed to woo her promise to convey her again should still she ever be stolen. yet Greek historians of the Classical interval came across it magnificent that males might struggle a chronic struggle over a woman—even if she have been the main appealing lady on this planet. Herodotus, writing within the 5th century B. C. , contended that the Trojans wouldn't have been so silly as to struggle ten years for the sake of a international girl. Following another lyric culture, present in the paintings of Stesichorus, a poet of the mid-sixth century B. C. , Herodotus recommended that Helen was once now not found in Troy in any respect, yet quite in Egypt, and that the besieging Greeks wouldn't be dissuaded by way of the Trojans’ protests that Helen used to be now not inside of their partitions. three Likewise, Thucydides within the 5th century B. C. —generally a interval of depressed status for Greek women—did now not realize that marriage to a lady like Helen may need had political and monetary implications. He rejected the tale that the lack of Helen used to be the first explanation for the warfare and took the placement that the Greeks fought the Trojans to increase their political and fiscal domination over the japanese Mediterranean global.