She starts wars and manipulates those around her to attain her desires. In the Odyssey she’s not explored as much as in the Iliad, but she shows her power firstly by drugging her guests, and again by giving Telemachus a dress to give to his wife on their wedding day, telling him to think of her. Through drugging everyone, Helen has the power to mess with their memory, making them believe a story about Odysseus and the Trojan War that is questionable. She is also the only one capable of understanding the omen of the eagle who ripping apart the goose. Menelaus, the King of Sparta, cannot translate the omen: “The warlord fell to thinking— / how to read the omen rightly, how to reply?” (Pg. 324 ll. 188-189). This talent is a characteristic that could support the theory that Helen is Zeus’s daughter. She is the only mortal female with power similar in scale to the
She starts wars and manipulates those around her to attain her desires. In the Odyssey she’s not explored as much as in the Iliad, but she shows her power firstly by drugging her guests, and again by giving Telemachus a dress to give to his wife on their wedding day, telling him to think of her. Through drugging everyone, Helen has the power to mess with their memory, making them believe a story about Odysseus and the Trojan War that is questionable. She is also the only one capable of understanding the omen of the eagle who ripping apart the goose. Menelaus, the King of Sparta, cannot translate the omen: “The warlord fell to thinking— / how to read the omen rightly, how to reply?” (Pg. 324 ll. 188-189). This talent is a characteristic that could support the theory that Helen is Zeus’s daughter. She is the only mortal female with power similar in scale to the