What Angela Rayner could learn from Hera
Whatever one thinks of her politics, Angela Rayner is clearly a pretty sporting party, and the joke she made about using her charms to distract the PM in the House is surely well in character. The ancient Greeks knew all about such crafty female tricks played on benighted males, never more delightfully exemplified than (surprisingly) in the West’s first work of literature, Homer’s Iliad (c. 700 bc).
In Book 14, the pro-Greek goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, is furious with her husband for supporting the Trojans.