Your picture is a few centuries after the Trojan War and from a different culture.
I think the lesson is that cultures always adapt modern and local standards to cast into their historical tales. Beauty especially can change with time and place. You know all those round-faced women from the days of early film? It’s not that women got hotter over the century–those women were hot. Guys from the 1920 would probably think our hot women to be poorly-fed vagrant farm workers.
Another data point: Mar-Al-Lago face. Hideous to us, but extremely attractive to the guillotine class.
That said, the blonde, blue-eyed nordic beauty standard is perhaps the most durable beauty standard we have in the West; it absolutely dominated at least between 1950-2000, so it makes cultural sense to make Helen look like that.
Edit: Another data point this Jewish guy from 30 CE Palestine:
A depictionnof Helen of troy from Pompeii, looks as white as me, a Chilean.
Your picture is a few centuries after the Trojan War and from a different culture.
I think the lesson is that cultures always adapt modern and local standards to cast into their historical tales. Beauty especially can change with time and place. You know all those round-faced women from the days of early film? It’s not that women got hotter over the century–those women were hot. Guys from the 1920 would probably think our hot women to be poorly-fed vagrant farm workers.
Another data point: Mar-Al-Lago face. Hideous to us, but extremely attractive to the guillotine class.
That said, the blonde, blue-eyed nordic beauty standard is perhaps the most durable beauty standard we have in the West; it absolutely dominated at least between 1950-2000, so it makes cultural sense to make Helen look like that.
Edit: Another data point this Jewish guy from 30 CE Palestine: