Ruby Blondell

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499 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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And part of the deal of the lottery is that they all agree that whoever wins, they will all get together and defend him if his wife takes off.

It's mythology, remember?

That is the million dollar question.

There are many, many, many versions of the story.

And in all the Greek versions, except one, but it's complicated.

She is seduced, but she goes willingly.

She wants to go.

And that's really crucial, the question of intentionality.

A lot of the modern versions, they all want to, for some reason, ancient and modern authors, they all want to defend Helen.

They say, oh, she wasn't so bad.

It wasn't her fault.

And the modern ones tend to do it by saying, oh, she was stuck in a loveless marriage.

You know, it's really not her fault.

She had to get away.

But in ancient ones, that's no excuse.

Well, the Greeks took a very strong view about this kind of female behavior.

Of course they did.

You know, it's a very patriarchal culture, and they think of women as being sex maniacs, basically, and incapable of self-control.

So therefore, it's easy to seduce them.

And so Helen's behavior is kind of typical woman behavior.

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