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women of legend - Greece, different story, passage suggests that for a…
women of legend - Greece
pandora
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poem - Hesiod, WORKS AND DAYS
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pandora bought a PITHOS (jar) which contained all the evils of the world. she didn't know what was in it, but her thievish nature (curiosity) made her open the jar and all the evils were released to the world. the last thing in the jar was HOPE
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she was appealing to epimetheus as she was so beautiful and would have been a good and useful wife as she could weave and craft things
zeus gave pandora to epimetheus as a gift (he had been warned not to accept any gifts, but he accepted her anyway - possibly he forgot because she was so beautiful)
Helen
Helen regretted her decision - in the Iliad she speaks to her father in law, Priam, saying she wishes she had chosen death instead of going with Paris
different versions - either Paris took her by force, or she was blinded by her love (because of Aphrodite) and went willingly.
Paris (Trojan prince who was one of the favourite mortals of Aphrodite , so she had promised to give him the gift of the love of the most beautiful woman in the world) visited Sparta and secretly took Helen back to troy
Helen ended up marrying Menelaus (prince of Mycenae) and they lived in Sparta and had a daughter called Hermione
every eligible prince and noble from across wanted Helen to be his queen. in order to make sure none of the disappointed suitors who didn't get to marry her sought revenge against Helen and her future husband, tyndareus made all suitors swear on an oath that they would not go to war against anyone who threatended helens marriage
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different story
EURIPIDES HELEN
TEN YEAR LONG TROJAN WAR TAKES PLACE - IN THE ILIAD HOMER DESCRIBES HELEN AS WEAVING (SIGN OF VIRUE FOR RICH WOMEN AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE HOUSEHOLD FOR POOR WOMEN) TROJAN ELDERS WISH SHE WOULD LEAVE BECAUSE SHE CAUSED THE WAR, ONLY KING PRIAM IS KIND TO HER
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ONCE MENELAUS REALISES HELEN HAS LEFT, HE ASSEMBLED A HUGE ARMY OF GREEK SOLIDERS TO HER HER BACK. (Helen is described as having a 'face that launched a thousand ships)
AVOIDS TAKING ANY BLAME FOR LEAVING WITH PARIS AND CAUSING THE WAR, INSTEAD SHE SAYS IT WAS THE GODS AND FATE
HERA, ANGRY WITH PARIS, MAKES A 'FAKE' HELEN OUT OF CLOUDS TO TAKE. BACK TO TROY AND THE REAL HELEN WENT TO EGYPT. THEOCLYMENUS WANTS TO FORCE HELEN TO MARRY HIM, SO HELEN SEEKS SANCTUARY AT A SACRED TOMB
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passage suggests that for a greek woman to be attractive, she had to be physically beautiful
in another poem called theogony, Hesiod describes women as "evil" to men, made worse by the fact that men need. them to have children