leer en español        “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” is a line habitually misquoted and universally believed. But Greek myth, being written by people who understood human weakness, suggests something crueller: whom the gods would destroy, they first make beautiful.Helen, for example. Helen was the daughter of Zeus, which meant two things: she was extraordinarily beautiful and she never stood a chance. At the age of 12 she was abducted by Theseus, aged 50, who had founded Athens, and decided that history alone was not enough....