/lit/ - Literature

>>20982380
in the movie agamemnon uses the kidnapping of helen as an excuse to conquer troy, after having already conquered all of micenae. keep in mind that the movie is not accurate to the iliad. at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitors_of_Helen

in the actual iliad, the only reason agamemnon has all of greece's armies is because of the oath of tyndarus which you can read above. so that only happens after and because of helen's kidnapping. you can also argue that if someone took your wife and you just let them go that would severely impact your reputation. i mean, what kind of leader is that? it would show an immense weakness and that you can do whatever you want to the king and suffer no consequences. his empire would fall pretty fast. of course he wouldn't just let helen go.

>>20981054
>The entire war is based on a whore. This severely ruined the book for me.
that's kinda unfair that you blame it on one "whore" when actually she didn't have a choice, paris got aphrodite to give him helen. so you can argue that the entire premise of the war is not a whore, but a fuckboy. he's the one who could have just let her go and prevented all of it. this happens frequently in the real world as well, using a woman as a scapegoat for some man. you don't even notice how sexist that is? not that i expect this kind of intellectual honesty on 4chan of all places lmao.

by the way, keep also in mind that helen was a demigod, not just a roastie. she is, quite literally, described as the most beautiful woman in the world. that would make some people behave irrationally. hell, i've seen what mediocre pussy does to a mf in real life. i can't imagine begin to imagine how godlike pussy would make them act.