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* CharacterDevelopment: Helen loses her Olympian like detachment and tendency to play with people becoming more human and empathic. Helen and Menelaus ''both'' stop playing doormat and assert themselves against Aphrodite and Agamemnon respectively.
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* AmazonianBeauty: Penthesileia is described as having the deadly beauty of an arrow in flight.
* CharacterDevelopment: Helen loses herOlympian like Olympian-like detachment and tendency to play with people becoming more human and empathic. Helen and Menelaus ''both'' stop playing doormat and assert themselves against Aphrodite and Agamemnon respectively.
* CharacterDevelopment: Helen loses her
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* HotAmazon: Penthesileia is described as having the deadly beauty of an arrow in flight.
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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Helen may be the Ur-example.
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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Helen may be the Ur-example.Ur-example.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: As anybody who's read TheOdyssey knows Menelaus and Helen end up back together and back in Sparta. We see here that it wasn't an easy trip.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: As anybody who's read TheOdyssey ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' knows Menelaus and Helen end up back together and back in Sparta. We see here that it wasn't an easy trip.
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* TheBechdelTest: Pass. Alceme and Helen discuss their beauty and how it impacts their lives. Helen, Penthesileia and M'pha have a long conversation about fighting tactics.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Helen loses her Olympian like detachment and tendency to play with people becoming more human and empathic. Helen and Menelaus ''both'' stop playing doormat and assert themselves against Aphrodite and Agamemnon respectively.
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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Menelaus discovers it's Helen's spirit and essential independence that he really loves not her beauty.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: As anybody who's read literature/TheOdyssey knows Menelaus and Helen end up back together and back in Sparta. We see here that it wasn't an easy trip.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: As anybody who's read literature/TheOdyssey TheOdyssey knows Menelaus and Helen end up back together and back in Sparta. We see here that it wasn't an easy trip.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: As anybody who's read literature/TheOdyssey knows Menelaus and Helen end up back together and back in Sparta. We see here that it wasn't an easy trip.
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* IGaveMyWord: M'pha promised her mother she'd stand by Helen until she was safely back with her husband Menelaus.
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* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Pretty much the Danaan ideal. A man who isn't a badass is regarded with as little respect as a woman who isn't a beauty.
* TheMostBeautifulWomanInTheWorld: Helen may be the Ur-example.
* TheMostBeautifulWomanInTheWorld: Helen may be the Ur-example.
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* HotConsort: Helen. The fact she's heiress to Sparta doesn't hurt either.
* LoveGoddess: Aphrodite has plans for Helen.
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Pretty much theDanaan ideal. gender norms. A man who isn't a badass is regarded with as little respect as a woman who isn't a beauty.
* TheMostBeautifulWomanInTheWorld: Helen may be the Ur-example.beauty.
* LoveGoddess: Aphrodite has plans for Helen.
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* SoBeautifulItsACurse: All Helen's problems are due to her famous beauty.
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* PhysicalGod: The Olympian Gods keep showing up and meddling.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: All Helen's problems are due to her famousbeauty.beauty - yet the idea of facing the world without her beauty to hide behind frightens her as a girl.
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Helen may be the Ur-example.
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A fantasy novel based on the myth of Helen of Troy by Richard Purtill. It is narrated by four different characters each telling his or her part of the story:
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* AmazonChaser: Achilles falls hard for the Amazon queen Penthesileia.
* TheBechdelTest: Pass. Alceme and Helen discuss their beauty and how it impacts their lives. Helen, Penthesileia and M'pha have a long conversation about fighting tactics.
* HotAmazon: Penthesileia is described as having the deadly beauty of an arrow in flight.
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Pretty much the Danaan ideal. A man who isn't a badass is regarded with as little respect as a woman who isn't a beauty.
* TheMostBeautifulWomanInTheWorld: Helen may be the Ur-example.
* MsFanservice: Alceme describes herself as 'flaunting her beauty' in nothing but a brief kilt as a girl.
* NoWomansLand: The Danaan kingdoms are portrayed this way. Men from said kingdoms are described by women from more feminist cultures as having contempt for women. This isn't entirely fair.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: All Helen's problems are due to her famous beauty.
* AmazonChaser: Achilles falls hard for the Amazon queen Penthesileia.
* TheBechdelTest: Pass. Alceme and Helen discuss their beauty and how it impacts their lives. Helen, Penthesileia and M'pha have a long conversation about fighting tactics.
* HotAmazon: Penthesileia is described as having the deadly beauty of an arrow in flight.
* MenAreStrongWomenArePretty: Pretty much the Danaan ideal. A man who isn't a badass is regarded with as little respect as a woman who isn't a beauty.
* TheMostBeautifulWomanInTheWorld: Helen may be the Ur-example.
* MsFanservice: Alceme describes herself as 'flaunting her beauty' in nothing but a brief kilt as a girl.
* NoWomansLand: The Danaan kingdoms are portrayed this way. Men from said kingdoms are described by women from more feminist cultures as having contempt for women. This isn't entirely fair.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: All Helen's problems are due to her famous beauty.
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The prologue is narrated by Theseus King of Athens who relates his kidnapping of Helen to use as a political hostage. The girl goes willingly because Theseus is a famous hero and she doesn't want her father's guards - some of whom are her friends - to get hurt trying to stop him. Theseus notices the beauty all right but he is even more impressed by the girl's character.
The first book is narrated by the Lady Alceme, an Athenian who was one of the fourteen young people who went with Theseus to Crete to become a bull leaper, and covers Helen's rescue by her brothers and her courtship by all the Kings of Greece. Alceme who married a merchant and lives in Karia comes to visit her old home town and finds Theseus's old friends, who are also hers, desperately worried about his relationship with a now nubile Helen. Alceme agrees to investigate and finds Helen unexpectedly sympathetic, and totally in love with Theseus. It is Alceme who gives Helen the titular mirror.
The second book is narrated by Alceme's daughter M'pha who is in Helen's service in Troy. Her part of the story covers the end of the war including the death of Achilles and the famous horse.
The final book is narrated by Menelaus and covers his relationship with Helen and their visit to Egypt and the choice he must make between the woman Helen and her beauty.
The first book is narrated by the Lady Alceme, an Athenian who was one of the fourteen young people who went with Theseus to Crete to become a bull leaper, and covers Helen's rescue by her brothers and her courtship by all the Kings of Greece. Alceme who married a merchant and lives in Karia comes to visit her old home town and finds Theseus's old friends, who are also hers, desperately worried about his relationship with a now nubile Helen. Alceme agrees to investigate and finds Helen unexpectedly sympathetic, and totally in love with Theseus. It is Alceme who gives Helen the titular mirror.
The second book is narrated by Alceme's daughter M'pha who is in Helen's service in Troy. Her part of the story covers the end of the war including the death of Achilles and the famous horse.
The final book is narrated by Menelaus and covers his relationship with Helen and their visit to Egypt and the choice he must make between the woman Helen and her beauty.
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The prologue is narrated by Theseus King of Athens who relates his kidnapping of Helen to use as a political hostage. The girl goes willingly because Theseus is a famous hero and she doesn't want her father's guards - some of whom are her friends - to get hurt trying to stop him. Theseus notices the beauty all right but he is even more impressed by the girl's
The first book is narrated by the Lady Alceme, an Athenian who was one of the fourteen young people who went with Theseus to Crete to become a bull leaper, and covers Helen's rescue by her brothers and her courtship by all the Kings of Greece. Alceme who married a merchant and lives in Karia comes to visit her old home town and finds Theseus's old friends, who are also hers, desperately worried about his relationship with a now nubile Helen. Alceme agrees to investigate and finds Helen unexpectedly sympathetic, and totally in love with Theseus. It is Alceme who gives Helen the titular mirror.
The second book is narrated by Alceme's daughter M'pha who is in Helen's service in Troy. Her part of the story covers the end of the war including the death of Achilles and the famous
The final book is narrated by Menelaus and covers his relationship with Helen and their visit to Egypt and the choice he must make between the woman Helen and her
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A novel based on the myth of Helen of Troy by Richard Purtill. It is narrated by four different characters each telling his or her part of the story:
The prologue is narrated by Theseus King of Athens who relates his kidnapping of Helen to use as a political hostage. The girl goes willingly because Theseus is a famous hero and she doesn't want her father's guards - some of whom are her friends - to get hurt trying to stop him. Theseus notices the beauty all right but he is even more impressed by the girl's character.
The first book is narrated by the Lady Alceme, an Athenian who was one of the fourteen young people who went with Theseus to Crete to become a bull leaper, and covers Helen's rescue by her brothers and her courtship by all the Kings of Greece. Alceme who married a merchant and lives in Karia comes to visit her old home town and finds Theseus's old friends, who are also hers, desperately worried about his relationship with a now nubile Helen. Alceme agrees to investigate and finds Helen unexpectedly sympathetic, and totally in love with Theseus. It is Alceme who gives Helen the titular mirror.
The second book is narrated by Alceme's daughter M'pha who is in Helen's service in Troy. Her part of the story covers the end of the war including the death of Achilles and the famous horse.
The final book is narrated by Menelaus and covers his relationship with Helen and their visit to Egypt and the choice he must make between the woman Helen and her beauty.
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The prologue is narrated by Theseus King of Athens who relates his kidnapping of Helen to use as a political hostage. The girl goes willingly because Theseus is a famous hero and she doesn't want her father's guards - some of whom are her friends - to get hurt trying to stop him. Theseus notices the beauty all right but he is even more impressed by the girl's character.
The first book is narrated by the Lady Alceme, an Athenian who was one of the fourteen young people who went with Theseus to Crete to become a bull leaper, and covers Helen's rescue by her brothers and her courtship by all the Kings of Greece. Alceme who married a merchant and lives in Karia comes to visit her old home town and finds Theseus's old friends, who are also hers, desperately worried about his relationship with a now nubile Helen. Alceme agrees to investigate and finds Helen unexpectedly sympathetic, and totally in love with Theseus. It is Alceme who gives Helen the titular mirror.
The second book is narrated by Alceme's daughter M'pha who is in Helen's service in Troy. Her part of the story covers the end of the war including the death of Achilles and the famous horse.
The final book is narrated by Menelaus and covers his relationship with Helen and their visit to Egypt and the choice he must make between the woman Helen and her beauty.
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