Named Entity Results, Nile

o Hellenes, for all that I spoke harshly to you in fear of my master. The old woman goes back into the palace. Menelaos What can I say? For after my former troubles, this present event that I hear of is an unhappy one, if I have come here, bringing my wife who was taken from Troy, and she is kept safe in the cave, but some other woman who has the same name as my wife lives in this house. She said the woman was born the child of Zeus. Can there be a man with the name of Zeus by the banks of Nile? For there is only one in heaven. Where in the world is there a Sparta, except by the streams of Eurotas, with its lovely reeds? The name of Tyndareus is the name of one alone. Is there any land of the same name as Lakedaimon or Troy? I do not know what to say; for there are probably many things in the wide world that have the same names, both cities and women; there is nothing, then, to marvel at. Besides, I will not run away from a servant's fears; for no man is so barbaric at heart as to

not here. Menelaos O my fortune, how we have been unworthily dishonored. Old woman Why are your eyes wet with tears? To whom are you lamenting? Menelaos To my fortunes, which were happy before this. Old woman Well then, why don't you go away and give these tears to your friends. Menelaos What is this land? Whose palace is this? Old woman Proteus lives here, the land is Egypt. Menelaos Egypt? O wretched, that I have sailed here! Old woman And why do you blame the bright gleam of the Nile? Menelaos I do not blame it; I am sighing for my fate. Old woman Many people are doing badly; you are not the only one. Menelaos Is the king you name in the house? Old woman This is his tomb; his son rules the land. Menelaos And where might he be? Abroad, or in the house? Old woman He is not inside; he is most bitterly opposed to the Hellenes. Menelaos What cause does he have? I have felt the consequences of it! Old woman Helen, the daughter of Zeus, is in this house. Menelaos What

to my anger more than I should, for all Hellas hates that daughter of Zeus. Forgive me for what I said, lady. Helen Who are you? Where have you come from, to visit this land? Teucer I am one of those unfortunate Achaeans, lady. Helen Then it is no wonder that you loathe Helen. But who are you and where do you come from? Whose son should I call you? Teucer My name is Teucer, my father is Telamon, and Salamis is the land that nurtured me. Helen Then why are you visiting these lands of the Nile? Teucer I am an exile, driven out of my native land. Helen You must be unhappy! Who banished you from your fatherland? Teucer My father Telamon. Could you find anyone closer to me? Helen But why? This matter is surely an unfortunate one. Teucer The death of my brother Aias at Troy was my ruin. Helen How so? You didn't take his life with your sword, did you? Teucer He threw himself on his own sword and died. Helen Was he mad? For what sensible man would dare such a thing? Teucer Do

Before the palace of Theoklymenos in Egypt. It is near the mouth of the Nile. The tomb of Proteus, the father of Theoklymenos, is visible. Helen is discovered alone before the tomb. Helen These are the lovely pure streams of the Nile, which waters the plain and lands of Egypt, fed by white melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus was king of this land when he was alive, living on the island of Pharos and lord of Egypt; and he married one of the daughters of the sea, Psamathe, after sNile, which waters the plain and lands of Egypt, fed by white melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus was king of this land when he was alive, living on the island of Pharos and lord of Egypt; and he married one of the daughters of the sea, Psamathe, after she left Aiakos' bed. She bore two children in his palace here: a son Theoklymenos, [because he spent his life in reverence of the gods,] and a noble daughter, her mother's pride, called Eido in her infancy. But when she came to youth, the season of marriage, she was called Theonoe; for she knew whatever the gods design, both present and to come, having received this honor from her grandfather Nereus. My own fatherland, Sparta, is not without fame, and my father is Tyndareus; but there is indee