> > Mike wrote:
> >
> > > Look at Helen (I'd be happy to) in the Illiad. When Troy
falls...
> >
> > Er... Troy never falls in the Iliad. The epic ends with the
funeral
> > of Hector. No wooden horse, even.
>
> > (Great story, BTW).
>
> Wonderful story (and analysis). But where is it from? Not the Iliad,
> as far as I can tell: like Nick says, it stops before Troy falls.
Not
> the Odyssey. Not the Aeneid, either, on a hasty skim through: Aeneas
> has an encounter with Helen and considers killing her, but is
stopped
> by a goddess telling him to stop wasting time and try rescuing his
> relatives instead.
>
> Oh, and Agamemnon isn't her ex-husband: that's Menelaus. (Him of the
> red hair, and the loud war-cry).
Like unto his relative, Odysseus... Another, cleverer, red-headded
man.
> So.. where did you find this marvellous story? I wanna read more...
I seem to have read this as prose as well, and recently.
But I just flipped to the back of 'Song of Troy' and it has a scene
pretty similar. Not bad stuff, actually. Quite intersting. Yes,
Menelaos.
Perhaps the person making the example was just 'making an example' --
you must admit it was an intersting one.
Jeff
"There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this kingdom."
- The Dread Pirate Wesley