Dear of troy: Of course the tragedy was really caused by the gods' interference in
human affairs. Actually the whole Troy myth is stupid. Troy was indeed a rich prize,
but it was destroyed many times for its richness, not because of just one woman.
Homer or his predecessors had to make a story. It is absurd to suggest that such
a war was fought just for one woman, who would have been old enough that her
beauty would have been long gone before the war was over. Many a man has died,
and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
But Helen is still a beautiful name. Not so good in my family. When something got
lost in the church, and people asked how to get it back, they got told to go to
Helen Hunt for it. An aunt of mine by that name died very young, from falling out
of a chair. Or so the story went. I suspect some acute medical problem did not
get detected, in spite of fact her father was a doctor. Lab tests then were very
primitive in a small town, over a hundred ;years ago.
