Helen... of Troy? Or So Much More?

I genuinely think a thousand ships is a phenomenal book I really love it

I highly recommend reading ureides Play Helen CU I think it's a really great play it's one of my favorite ancient Greek plays

one book which does attempt to sort of highlight the complexity of Helen's story and explore her narrative from the perspective of a real person is Margaret George's Helen of Troy

one of my favorites which is actually just behind me here is stealing Helen the myth of the abducted wife in comparative perspective by LEL Edmonds

I find that actually Homer is quite intentionally ambiguous with discussion of Helen and somewhat sympathetic to her

again I love that book and I love a lot of Margaret Atwood's books but I feel she could have done Helen a lot better in that book and I think it's the part of the book that really lets it down unfortunately because she is sort of oversimplified and vilified in that way