Chapter 16, The Trojan War
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♠ Aischylos, Agamemnon 403-8
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But she, bequeathing to her people the clang of shield and spear and army of fleets, and bringing to Ilium destruction in place of dowry, with light step she passed through the gates—daring a deed undareable. Greek Text
♦ Berlin, Antikensammlung 30036: Attic red-figure neck-amphora by the Heimarmene Painter, with (in the center) Helen on lap of Aphrodite, and Himeros and Paris; on left, Nemesis pointing finger at Helen and a companion, and Peitho with chest; on right, Heimarmene and woman with bird
A. Furtwaengler and K. Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei: Auswahl hervorragender Vasenbilder vol. 3 (1932) pl. 172.2
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♠ Stesichoros, Elena: Palinoidia 192 PMG – Poetae Melici Graeci, pp. 104-5 ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.
♠ Plato, Republic 9.586c
as to seem intense in either kind, and to beget mad loves of themselves in senseless souls, and to be fought for, as Stesichorus says the wraith of Helen was fought for at Troy through ignorance of the truth?” “It is quite inevitable,” he said, “that it should be so.” Greek Text
♠ Hesiod fr 358 MW – Fragmenta Hesiodea, p. 136, ed. Merkelbach and M.L. West. Oxford 1967.
♠ Dio of Prusa 11.41
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