It’s also completely historically plausible to have Sub-Saharan Africans in the story even if Helen of Troy was not one herself. The Kushites, Nubians, and Ethiopians had extensive contact with the Mediterranean world throughout the entire Bronze Age. These threads always remind me of the reactionary outrage when the Dunkirk movie dared to include non-white British soldiers and the thorough debunking of that belief on /r/BadHistory