If the heroes of Greek mythology tell us about adventures and legends that are part of our culture, the heroines also have an aura of wonderful beauty that accompanies having been a source of inspiration for painters and sculptors for 3,000 years . To choose the names of our babies, if they are girls, these mythological heroine namesThey are beautiful and full of poetry.
I have always felt a predilection for those who are braver, those who did not let themselves be mowed by men or by the gods, despite having to face tragic destinies.
Kassandra, daughter of Priámo and Hécuba, sister therefore of Héctor and Paris, princess of Troy, is one of them. Beautiful, ignited the desire of the god Apollo, who to convince her to love him, offered her the gift she asked for. The girl, flirtatious and dreamy, but ambitious of wisdom, asked for a precious gift, the most powerful that Apollo could be asked for: prophecy. God gave in and since then Kassandra I would be able to know the future without error.
But at the time of fulfilling his part of the deal the girl refused. The fury of the spiteful Apollo materialized in a spit in the princess's mouth: a curse that will turn Kassandra's life and destiny into a tragedy of epic proportions linked to the history of the Trojan War.
Despite knowing the future, nobody, nobody, will never believe it. And she could then see how the ruin of Troy was approaching, warned her family and fellow citizens to avoid the decisions that would lead them to destruction. But nobody, nobody, never believed her.
He saw his mother, in a dream, give birth not a child, but a torch that would burn the city: his brother Paris. He warned, when he brought Helena, that woman would be the end of his people. She opposed, insane, that the enormous wooden horse in which the Greeks were hiding was introduced into the city. But nobody, nobody, never believed her.
In the capture of the city, it was torn from the temple where he had taken refuge and distributed as part of the loot by the conquerors. She was chosen by the head of the Greek armies, Agamemnon, and became the mother of twins on the sea voyage to Greece.
Until her own death, at the hands of Clitemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, she glimpsed her clearly and had to accept her because she did not find escape or refuge.
Helena, is the most beautiful woman in the world, the most beautiful, is not even completely deadly. The men lost their heads for her, threw themselves thousands into death. His face leaked ships and raised armies.
He was born in the Greek city of Sparta. His father, in reality, was not King Tindareo, but Zeus himself. The father of the gods had fertilized Queen Leda turned into a swan that the queen took in her arms in awe of such beauty. Leda, after that adventure, gave birth to two eggs, and from them Helena and Polux, and Castor and Clitemnestra were born. We talked about the brothers on another occasion, and his sister will be the one who will give Cassandra cruel death.
The beauty and heritage of Helena They were such that at the request of his hand all the young princes of Greece appeared. So many were and so eager, that the king made them swear that they would always protect the chosen one, letting it be the girl, something unusual at the time, who chose her husband.
However, the election should not please Helena. Menelaus does not appear as a man of especially attractive moral qualities and, although understandable because he lived a terrifying childhood, that a wife does not always forgive him. When Paris, the graceful prince of Troy, arrived in Sparta, Helena fell asleep before him who was one of the most beautiful and charming men, and who also arrived with the blessings of the goddess Aphrodite, who had promised her the love of the woman most beautiful on Earth.
Helena escapes, leaving her country and her husband, as well as a daughter. In Troy she is accepted as the wife of Paris, despite how dangerous it could be to enrage Menelaus. The fate of a city is signed by the love of a woman.
The terrible war will last ten years, in which she saw her beloved die at the hands of Achilles and feared a hundred times to return to the husband who had made all those who promised to help him mobilize to conquer Troy, recover Helena and, surely above all, take control of the trade routes that channeled the powerful city.
When Troy is destroyed, burned and razed, when all those who received it have died and their women have been turned into slaves of the victors, Helena is forced to return with Menelaus, for the rest of her life.
The heroines of the Trojan click share terrible fates, but beautiful sound names worth remembering: AndromacheHector's wife, the young woman Polyxena Y Creúsa, mother of Iulo Ascanio, the ancestor of the founders of Rome.
In addition to them I can not help but remember the impressive PenthesileaQueen of the Amazons, who fought with Achilles himself as equals and who, although he died, they say he broke the heart of the hero who fell in love with her while they fought and watched her die by her own hand. These were terrible times when the anger of battle was imposed on the look of love.
But warriors like that, in the midst of men's battles, remember that women in legends could be as brave as heroes.
In the next theme we will remember intrepid hunters, romantic princesses and adventurous heroines who will bring us with their exciting stories, Lovely mythology names for our babies.
