The greeting of Menelaus toward Anaxandra was very cordial …show more content…
Helen was cruel, she had arrogance for herself, and she has egotism. Helen was the queen of Sparta married to Menelaus, she betrays both Menelaus and Sparta and becomes Helen of Troy. The queen Helen never liked anaxandra since the first day they met. She would always say anaxandra wasn’t a princess, she wasn’t but she had to fake to be one because if she would have said to Menelaus that she was taken hostage she would have become a slave. Helen made anaxandra recite the genealogy of Petra to see if she was really Callisto. Helen in troy made Aethra shave Anaxandra’s hair because it reminded it Helen of Menelaus. “Shave her skull again tonight and bring her for me to look at, she is no princess, I know she has stolen a birth right.” Helen also made Anaxandra get in trouble with Priam and was sended to underground tunnels. Helen tells anaxandra “I shall walk those temple steps, girl and know that you are under my feet trailing in the dark, forever my slave.”
The secondary characters in “goddess of yesterday” affect the primary character anaxandra by changing the way she looks and the way of anaxandra living. Menelaus saves her from siphnos when she was the only survivor. Helen makes anaxandra shave her head and also makes anaxandra her