Jane:
>
> 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).
Isn't it blonde?
> So.. where did you find this marvellous story? I wanna read more...
It's from one of Euripides tragedies, cannot remember which
at the moment (my classics studies have been moldering in
the basemenet of my memory for ten years), but Trojan Women
is one guess.
Nils Weinander
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