Helena and her unparalleled beauty, which turned out to be just a bone that rabid dogs dispute; Cassandra, whose prophecies no one heeds unless a male enunciates them; the stubborn Amina, staring at the ruins, determined to avenge the death of her king; Hecuba howling in pain on the silent shore, as if her cries could reach the corridors of Hades and awaken the dead; and Briseida, who carries in her womb the son of the fallen hero... Alas, the women of Troy, trapped again in the blind struggle of men! In the Iliad, that ode to destruction caused by male aggression, women are the object through which men fight each other to assert their status. Goddesses always have something to say, but mortals usually remain silent and if they speak it is only to lament: for the fall of Troy, for their dead children, fathers and husbands, and for their own freedom, taken by force by both the victors ...read more
