Greeks Mythology

Foreign women of mythology are set apart in some way from their fellows. The mythological figures of Helen of Troy and Medea are two key examples of this separation seen throughout mythology in antiquity. In the instance of Medea: the woman who “kills her children in vengeance when her husband deserts her” it is clear that Euripides wishes to permanently separate her from other mothers, not only in Greek mythology, but also from other mothers …

…made him immortal, and an equal partner of the house and throne. Isocrates also mentions that even in his time the Spartans made sacrifices to Helen and Menelaus, (Menelaus as a god, and Helen as a goddess). While this is only one account of Helen and Menelaus’ happenings after the Trojan War, it would be fair to argue that Helen was of divine birth and was worshipped for her beauty in a goddess like fashion.