Helen portrays herself as more masculine, concerned with her own glory in the brief conversation she has with the hero in Paris’ bedroom. In her first appearance, the elderly men on the wall discuss her beauty as she walks past them (3.153–160). In Book 3 Hector uses taunts to persuade his brother Paris to remember his honor and fight Menelaus in a duel. Picking up on this theme, Helen in Book 6 speaks to Paris more as a fellow soldier than a wife. In his discussion with Paris, Hector encourages him to return to the battlefield, and this is precisely what Helen tells him to do (337–338). Indeed, she proceeds to tell Hector that Paris’ mind is unstable, even as she reminds him that she and Paris are in fact responsible for the disaster facing