I - Helen of Troy

• “She was born from an egg, a daughter of the gods, divinely fair“ (Helen of Troy)

  • Ethereal, idolatry
• “a pearl,”

  “starlike sorrows” (Helen of Troy

  • Innate / fated love and beauty
• “She won the heart of every man” (Helen of Troy)

  • Captivates all
• “beseeched Be Mine.” (Helen of Troy)

  • Demanding tone, treating her as a possession
• “enchanted by the perfume of her breath,” (Helen of Troy)

  Otherworldly beauty entrances all men, powerful
• “her skin’s celebrity.” (Helen of Troy)

  Famed purely for her looks
• “it was War. A thousand ships -“ (Helen of Troy)

  Her beauty has agency and power
• “his stinging eyes..”

  “his arm,”

  “his lucky charm” (Helen of Troy)

  • Lived through male interactions, she becomes a possession as consequence of her beauty
• “her cries like the bird of calamity’s” (Helen of Troy) besuty
• “her cries like the bird of calamity’s” (Helen of Troy)

  • Omnistic beauty, imagery of a prophesy
• “she turned into a cloud and floated home, falling there like rain, or tears,” (Helen of Troy)

  • Fantastical element to her divinity
• “the black silk of her dress clung to her form, a stylish shroud.” (Helen of Troy)

  • What remains is her physical image, judged permanently by her aesthetic value