The kidnap and rape of Io, Europa, and Medea started the conflict between the East and the West.

You can throw in Helen if you wish, but Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) dissed Homer on this point.

Helen was never in Troy!

And Philippides did not run the first Marathon to Athens, announce the victory over the Persians, and die!

No.“Herein lies my research as to why the Hellenes and the barbarians, the West and the East, made war on each other,” Herodotus stated.

A war we are still fighting today.

BECAUSE OF THE WOMEN is a transliteration of Herodotus’s HISTORIES.

Herodotus wrote his stories to be told.

He sat in agorae throughout the Hellenic world and performed for drachmas; his tales went over like gangbusters.

Tom Cayler is an OBIE-winning actor and a Screenwriting Fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts.

His award winning one-man play, MEN DIE SOONER, was filmed and broadcast by PBS.

Tom spent six months on the GUIDING LIGHT before he was thrown out of an airplane.

His short story, “The Little Black Dots,” was included in Michael Kimmel’s MEN CONFRONT PORNOGRAPHY, (Crown).

His first book, written with his son, Cai Marshall, OMEGA TO ALPHA, A Robot Love Story is available as an E-book on Amazon.com, along with THE DISCIPLE HE LOVED, the true story of Jesus of Nazareth.