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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 94 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 54 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschines, Speeches | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aeschines, Speeches | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Andocides, Speeches | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Chorus
Many of the Achaeans have breathed out their last amid the spears and hurling stones and have gone to unhappy Hades; their wives have cut off their hair in sorrow, and their homes are left without a bride; an Achaean man, who had only a single ship, lit a blazing beacon on sea-girt Euboia, and destroyed many of them, casting them onto the rocks of Kaphareus and the sea-shores of the Aegean, by the treacherous flame he kindled. The mountains of Malea provided no harbor, in the gusts of the storm, when Menelaos sped far away from his country, bearing on his ships a prize of the barbarian expedition, no prize but strife with the Danaans, Hera's holy phantom.
Chorus Leader
My views about seers agree exactly with this old man's; whoever has the gods as friends would have the best prophecy at home.
Helen
All right; so far all is well. But how you were saved, my poor husband, from Troy, there is no gain in knowing, yet friends have a desire to learn what their friends have suffered.
Menelaos
Truly you have asked a great deal all at once. Why should I tell you about our losses in the Aegean, and Nauplios' beacons on Euboia, and my visits to Crete and the cities of Libya, and the mountain-peaks of Perseus? For I would not satisfy you with the tale, and by telling you these evils I would suffer still, as I did when I experienced them; and so my grief would be doubled.
Helen
Your answer is better than my question. Leave out the rest, and tell me only this: how long were you a weary wanderer over the surface of the sea?
Menelaos
Besides those ten years in Troy, I went through seven cycles of years on board ship.
Helen
Alas, poor man, you