Word: menelaus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. The early life of Helen of Troy may not have been private-or at any rate Professor Erskine chooses to summarize it in two sentences: "So they all intended well. But Paris saw Helen face to face." The story begins when the topless towers of Ilium were falling: Menelaus sword in hand storms into Helen's room to kill her, looks and exclaims: "Helen, it's time we went home...
...they got Helen with her strange fascinating beauty, accustomed to what she wants, and baffled by her inability to come at what she most wants-life. At Sparta, the servants are taken aback when Menelaus restores her to her old place in his home, and Menelaus has to remind them that he has changed: "And we've been through the war, you should remember. Nothing can be quite the same again...
...Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...
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...
...There! I never liked her," exclaims Menelaus. "I'm shocked, but not surprised. . . . But after all it may be only gossip...