The chronicle of the Trojan War is bookended by the deaths of women--Iphigenia in the beginning, and Polyxena at the end: one Greek and one Trojan. Although Helen was "the face that launched a thousand ships" (and I still argue she was probably a dowdy matron with bad skin, but who had -huge-.....tracts of land), it took the blood of Iphigenia
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