Never read the Odyssey, was Helen of Troy Greek? Was she a daughter of a Greek aristocracy and married into Troy for an alliance or do people just assume she was Greek because it was written by one?
Couldn’t Helen of Troy been just as easily from a powerful African empire and married for an alliance?
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u/Woodpecker-Ornery 13d ago
Never read the Odyssey, was Helen of Troy Greek? Was she a daughter of a Greek aristocracy and married into Troy for an alliance or do people just assume she was Greek because it was written by one?
Couldn’t Helen of Troy been just as easily from a powerful African empire and married for an alliance?