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Black Ships Before Troy Argumentative Essay

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“Black Ships Before Troy” Argumentative Essay
By: Neharika Kutagulla

Abraham Lincoln once said, “I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between a husband and a wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.” Helen was the most beautiful woman in the entire Greek known world. She was the daughter of Zeus and the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Meanwhile in Troy, Paris was given a golden apple to choose which of the 3 goddesses: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite were the fairest of them all. Paris gave Aphrodite the golden apple after promising him the most beautiful wife, Helen. If you consider the ideas that she would become queen again, Paris was dead, and that she was didn’t willingly move to Troy, it is clear that Helen should return back to Greece. …show more content…

If she returned to Greece, she would become queen again and rule over her home city. The novel states, “ Odysseus said, ‘I ask for the life of Helen of the Fair Cheeks, that I may give it back to her in payment for my own life, which she saved for me when I came here to seek the Luck of Troy.’” (Sutcliff 144). Even as a princess of the enemy side of the war, she still helped her close friend get to the Luck of Troy which might have led to her death. She was ready to risk her life for Odysseus which shows true leadership and that she still has a soft spot for her home side. Being a queen is no less that a brave woman who strives to represent her people with compassion and love. Helen showed just as that when she saved many Greek lives by helping Odysseus get to the Luck of

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