To see her through the eyes of her sister who deeply loved her, her niece who only knows her aunt through gossip, and Cassandra who has a really interesting relationship with Helen. I thought it was a really interesting choice to have the women around Helen be the ones talking about her. This book also doesn't really get a ton of information about Helen directly from Helen. Obviously in classical tellings of this story Helen's point of view is not really explored, we get the stories of the men that surrounded Helen, they cast their assumptions about her motives but we don't explore Helen's motives from her point of view. Homer stans don't lament.Īn aspect of this retelling that I found really interesting was the way Saint treats Helen in this book. It mostly follows the events of the Trojan war as told by Aeschylus but also definitely engages with the Iliad as well.
This story follows Agamemnon's daughter Elektra, her mother Clytemnestra, and the Trojan seer Cassandra. But I also found this story interesting and engaging in its own right. I think that I like the way the reader gets to engage with intertextuality between both the book the the original work and the book and other works inspired by the original.
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