 Meanwhile, Virgil also makes Helen more vicious by having her betray her own husband Deiphobos and give him over to Menelaus as a peace offering.The satirist Lucian of Samosata features Helen in his famous "Dialogues of the Dead", in which he portrays her deceased spirit as aged and withered.In the early Middle Ages, after the rise of Christianity, Helen was seen as a pagan equivalent to Eve from the Book of Genesis.