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Helen (1675-1690)

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when you were stolen from your home. And it is destined by the gods that the wanderer Menelaos will dwell in the islands of the blessed; for deities do not hate the well-born, but the sufferings of the multitude are greater.
Theoklymenos
You sons of Leda and Zeus, I will let go my former quarrel over your sister; and mine I shall no longer try to kill. Let Helen go home, if the gods think it right. Know that you are born from the same blood as a sister
who is the best and also most self-controlled; may you fare well, for the sake of Helen’s most noble mind, a quality not to be found in many women.
1688
Chorus
Many are the forms of divinities, and many things the gods bring to pass unhoped for.
And what was expected has not been fulfilled; for what was not expected, a god finds a way. Such was the result of this action.

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