Greek and Roman Mythology

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If you go to the Hades girl you will not find your lover. Among the living only are the delights of Aphrodite; in Acheron, girl, we will be only bones and ashes .

Someone will say that,
and it will bring still more grief to you,
to be without a man like that to save you
from days of servitude.  May I lie dead, 
hidden deep under a burial mound, 
before I hear about your screaming,    
as you are dragged away. Hector to Andromache, Iliad Book 6

HAMLET: What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? William Shakespeare

Probably the most interesting comment about Helena was that she was 40 years old when she met Paris.

"she takes the eyes of men, destroys cities and burns their houses: so potent is her beauty" Hecuba in Trojan Women of Euripides asking Menelaus to kill Helen without looking at her

A list of children of Heracles reveals what he did except the Twelve Labours

Socrates. I should imagine that the name Hermes has to do with speech, and signifies that he is the interpreter (ermeneus), or messenger, or thief, or liar, or bargainer; all that sort of thing has a great deal to do with language; as I was telling you the word eirein is expressive of the use of speech, and there is an often-recurring Homeric word emesato, which means "he contrived"- out of these two words, eirein and mesasthai, the legislator formed the name of the God who invented language and speech; and we may imagine him dictating to us the use of this name: "O my friends," says he to us, "seeing that he is the contriver of tales or speeches, you may rightly call him Eirhemes." And this has been improved by us, as we think, into Hermes. Plato, Cratylus

As Socrates once explained a Hero is a product of the love between a mortal and an immortal