Womanhood was strange and painful and humiliating. Helen "wondered why she had been so desperate to become a woman. Helen and Klytemnestra spend their lives wrestling with the painful reality of their position as pawns in the male plot, first by their father, Tyndareos, who marries them off to protect and consolidate power, and then by their husbands, Menelaos and Agamemnon. Starting with their early childhood and culminating with the end of the Trojan War, Heywood breathes new life into two central figures of the Greco-Roman tradition: Helen-the most beautiful woman in all of Greece, famously blamed for being the cause of the Trojan War-and Klytemnestra, her self-sacrificing and more levelheaded sister. Women at the center of Greek and Roman epics are given new voices.
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