RE: Re: Many heroes against one big nasty beast

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From: Weihe, David <weihe_at_...>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:49:48 -0400

sigaud_at_... wrote:
> (by the way, Good Looking is quantifiable : the Helen is the unity :
> beautiful enough to put 1000 ships at sea and make war. The
> Millihelen is more useful for normal girls)

But Aphrodite is so beautiful that she would make Helen look plain, and Paris had to see her to make his Judgement.

Anyway, Helen didn't need to look good - she was the richest heiress in Achaea, the Bronze Age equivalent of Eleanor of the Aquitaine. Menelaus had to recapture her because he was just King Matrimonial, and had no more claim to "his" kingdom in his own right than did King Philip of Spain have a claim to the English throne outside of his marriage to (Bloody) Mary Stuart.