Helen ‘appears’ for the first time in the Iliad in book 3. What does she look like? A few years ago, there was a bit of a to-do about the ethnicity of Homeric heroes. While some sketchy applications of DNA testing are eager to establish continuity between the people of antiquity and modern populations, others … Continue reading Heroic Appearances: Or, What Did Helen Look Like?

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