"Clearly the rest I behold of the dark-ey’d sons of Achaia; Known to me well are the faces of all; their names I remember; Two, two only remain, whom I see not among the commanders, Castor fleet in the car—Polydeukes brave with the cestus— Own dear brethren of mine—one parent lov’d us as infants. Are they not here in the host, from the shores of lov’d Lacedæmon, Or, tho’ they came with the rest in ships that bound thro’ the waters, Dare they not enter the fight or stand in the council of Heroes All for fear of the shame and the taunts my crime has awaken’d? So said she;—they long since in Earth’s soft arms were reposing, There, in their own dear land, their Father-land, Lacedæmon."
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Cited in: Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer (1861)
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Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη Helénē), also known as beautiful Helen, Helen of Argos, or Helen of Sparta, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Leda, and was the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe and Timandra. She was married to King Menelaus of Sparta who became by her the father of Hermione, and, according to others, of Nicostratus also. Her abduction by Par
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