She came to Troy because she owed a blood-debt, because she believed in something, and because she was the last great War-Queen of the Amazons and this was the last great war. History would remember what it chose. The poets would tell it how they liked. This is what happened.
Retellings of the Greek myths that remember what the legends chose to forget — told in a voice that is always present, never neutral, and rarely kind to the poets who came before.
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