The face that launched 1,000 ships

[perdix]

"Meet Helen of Troy: bald-headed, bare-breasted and bloodthirsty" by Jonathan Thompson of the Independent (10 October 2005)

In other news, Jenny's reading at Politics and Prose yesterday evening was totally fab. You should really all be sure to try and catch her on her book tour!

Comments

[ece_drihten]

that Helen reminds me of a girl I dated, actually... bloodthirsty and sex-mad, just like Helen from high school.

[perdix]

How exactly did her bloodthirstiness manifest itself on a day-to-day basis?!

[ece_drihten]

suicidal depression and uncontrollable anger?

That and she carried around this huge motherfucking axe....

[thegreatape]

Helen of Troy sounds like my kind of girl.

[perdix]

I know, right?!

Here's to the historical novel I'm going to write when the ongoing archaeological excavations confirm this new profile of Helen of Troy...

(It'll be like a bodice-ripper except that the one ripping all the bodices will be Helen and the ones getting ravished will be "manly" Homeric warriors.)

[amalthea12]

happy late birthday, pretty lady!

...I was supposed to be there, but health issues intervened :(