Word: menelaus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present day and age than perhaps for many decades, nevertheless the most illiterate school-child is familiar with the fundamentals of the story,--the struggle of the Goddesses for the Golden Apple, its award by Paris to Venus, the faithlessness of Helen to her Greek King-husband Menelaus, and the subsequent war on the windy plains, and ultimate disaster. These are the events told by Homer in lines that for the few who still can taste them in this apostate age are the ultimate in poetic fare. No poetry of succeeding ages has rivaled them on this or even...
...patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection...
...work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus "that cold-blooded egotist," Telemachus "the priggish son who yet met his master-prig in Menelaus...