 Claude Calame and other scholars try to analyze the affinity between the cults of Helen and Artemis Orthia, pointing out the resemblance of the terracotta female figurines offered to both deities.Helen frequently appeared in Athenian comedies of the fifth century BC as a caricature of Pericles's mistress Aspasia.In Hellenistic times, she was associated with the moon due to the similarity of her name to the Greek word Σελήνη ("Selēnē"), meaning "Moon, goddess of the moon".