spoopyruin:Racebent Trojan War - Part 38/38Antonia Thomas (Jamaican/English) as the face that launch
spoopyruin:Racebent Trojan War - Part 38/38Antonia Thomas (Jamaican/English) as the face that launched a thousand ships, and left them broken on beaches far from home. The queen of two countries, beloved by neither. The lover of a man who loves only the idea of her. A woman raised in the world of the homoioi; faster, stronger, and more beautiful than all others. Sired by Zeus Hypatos, favored by Aphrodite Pandemos. She is Helen— always of Sparta, never truly of Troy.“Then Iris came as messenger to white-armed Helen, taking on the image of her sister-in-law, wife of Antenor’s son, fine Helicaon. Her name was Laodice, of all Priam’s daughters the most beautiful. She found Helen in her room, weaving a large cloth, a double purple cloak, creating pictures of the many battle scenesbetween horse-taming Trojans and bronze-clad Achaeans, wars they suffered for her sake at the hands of Ares.” [Homer. The Iliad. Book III]"Hector,” said she, “dearest of all my brothers-in-law-for I am wife to Alexandrus who brought me hither to Troy- would that I had died ere he did so- twenty years are come and gone since I left my home and came from over the sea, but I have never heard one word of insult or unkindness from you. When another would chide with me, as it might be one of your brothers or sisters or of your brothers’ wives, or my mother-in-law- for Priam was as kind to me as though he were my own father- you would rebuke and check them with words of gentleness and goodwill. Therefore my tears flow both for you and for my unhappy self, for there is no one else in Troy who is kind to me, but all shrink and shudder as they go by me." [Homer. The Iliad. Book XXIV] -- source link
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