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Helen: Troy
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When Troy fell, Odysseus and Menelaus found Helen with Deiphobus. Menelaus killed Deiphobus (perhaps aided by Helen herself). Although Menelaus had intended to kill his unfaithful wife, her charms captivated him once again and he put her on his ship, announcing that he would kill her later. After seven years of travel on the sea, Helen and Menelaus reached Sparta and Menelaus had all but forgotten Helen's betrayal.
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Aphrodite, some say, was in Helen's imagination and nowhere else. It was her mind who became her Aphrodite, when the handsome Trojan seducer came to Sparta clad in gorgeous foreign clothes adorned with gold. And it was then that Helen lost her senses, deeming it better to live in rich Troy than in niggardly Sparta.
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Although attention is being paid to historical detail, Helen of Troy, which is premiering in the US in April, is not only targetting a discerning, intellectual audience. The production is not masterpiece theatre, but a "rousing, spirited love story, set against the tapestry of the ancient world," says Shapiro.
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As for Aphrodite, they say, she did not need to follow Paris to Sparta, since she could, had she wished, bring Helen to Troy instead. And as no mortal can ever know what in reality is inside the minds of the gods, men end blaming either one or another, depending on where each stands. For what they themselves call "scapegoats" must, in any case, be always appointed.
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