As a result, many of these accounts cause a high level of duplicity among scholars, since she is often subjected to both blame and praise. Since the story of Helen's life is so ambiguous, classical scholars tend to be uncertain as to the veracity of the adventures that each author has Helen embark upon and exactly which of the accounts, if any, are true. Each of these stories has an agenda in that each writer means to portray Helen in a certain light: none of these works manages to keep a neutral or ambivalent tone in Helen's depiction. The portrait that ancient authors and scholars alike paint is that of a woman with an uncertain history and a name marred by generations, both contemporary with her life, as well as those contemporary with ours.
One of most enigmatic figures in mythology is Helen of Troy.
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