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Hermione is shocked. Hermione wants to marry her cousin Orestes. Helen does not like the straight-laced young fellow and would prefer her to marry Pyrrhus, the daredevil son of Achilles. Then there is the rumor that Eteoneus, the gatekeeper, brings to Menelaus: "Your sister-in-law Clytemnestra-your double sister-in-law, I might say; your wife's sister and your brother's wife-has been living with Aegisthus ever since Agamemnon went to Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Menelaus* | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...Eteoneus replies: "These rumors that spread about beautiful women are often malicious or envious, as you say, but they're rarely exaggerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Menelaus* | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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