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[Alexander News - Teagan Sears] Writers have been touting Helen of Troy's beauty as the downfall of great men and great civilizations for centuries. Was she the undoing of Troy as Homer and like minded scholars through the ages have had us believe? The findings of (archaeologist/mythologist) Mariija Gimbutu, that an Earth Mother was the primary deity of the Aegean area during Helen's time, 2280 BCE, which were confirmed in John Chadwick's translations of Mycenean tablets, has shed new light on this very old story. Rather than the affair between Paris and Helen causing Troy's demise, it was more likely the conflict arising from patrilinear invaders with the indigenous matrilineal peoples that laid the groundwork for this epic tale. Florence Wallin fleshes out this premise in her novel According to Helen...

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