The Legend of Fair Helen As Told By Homer, Goethe And Others; a Study
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But here Juno — so Helen herself relates to us — displeased at not having conquered the other goddesses in the trial by Paris, resolves to spoil the plan of Venus. ' She,' Helen says herself, ' she spoilt my marriage with Paris, and gave not me, but a phantom,^ looking like me, and formed out of aether, to Priam's son, who, misled by illusion, fancied he possessed me. . . .
It was my name, not I, that was the price for which the Greeks fought. But I was carried by Mercury-Hermes through the reg...ions of the air, and, veiled in a cloud in Sparta already — for Jupiter was favourable to me — I was set down in the palace of Proteus, the King of Egypt. So long as he lived, I was not troubled by any offer 1 Mahaffy, Classical Greek Literature, vol. i., part ii,, p. 128 et seq., is not favourable to Euripides' Helena, with the Egyptian form of the legend. Neither was Aristo- phanes, who ridiculed it, as he ridiculed many other things.
But does not that very disbelief in this particular version imply a general belief in the personality of a real Helena, who had an existence, whilst the exact facts of her life cannot be disentangled from the various accretions of legend ?
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But here Juno — so Helen herself relates to us — displeased at not having conquered the other goddesses in the trial by Paris, resolves to spoil the plan of Venus. ' She,' Helen says herself, ' she spoilt my marriage with Paris, and gave not me, but a phantom,^ looking like me, and formed out of aether, to Priam's son, who, misled by illusion, fancied he possessed me. . . .
It was my name, not I, that was the price for which the Greeks fought. But I was carried by Mercury-Hermes through the reg...ions of the air, and, veiled in a cloud in Sparta already — for Jupiter was favourable to me — I was set down in the palace of Proteus, the King of Egypt. So long as he lived, I was not troubled by any offer 1 Mahaffy, Classical Greek Literature, vol. i., part ii,, p. 128 et seq., is not favourable to Euripides' Helena, with the Egyptian form of the legend. Neither was Aristo- phanes, who ridiculed it, as he ridiculed many other things.
But does not that very disbelief in this particular version imply a general belief in the personality of a real Helena, who had an existence, whilst the exact facts of her life cannot be disentangled from the various accretions of legend ?
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