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Helen (673-710)

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I have wept bitterly, and my eyes are wet with tears; the wife of Zeus ruined me.
Menelaos
Hera? Why did she want to bring trouble to the two of us?
Helen
Alas for my terrible fate, the baths and springs, where the goddesses brightened the beauty from which the judgment came.
Menelaos
Regarding the judgment, Hera made it a cause of these troubles for you?
Helen
To take me away from Paris—
Menelaos
How? Tell me.
Helen
To whom Kypris had promised me.
Menelaos
O unhappy one!
Helen
Unhappy, unhappy; and so she brought me to Egypt.
Menelaos
Then she gave him a phantom instead, as I hear from you.
Helen
Sorrow, sorrow to your house,
mother, alas.
Menelaos
What do you mean?
Helen
My mother is no more; through shame of my disgraceful marriage she tied a noose around her neck.
Menelaos
Alas! Is our daughter Hermione alive?
Helen
Ah, my husband! Unmarried, and without children, she mourns my
fatal marriage.
Menelaos
O Paris, who utterly destroyed my whole house, these things ruined you also, and countless bronze-clad Danaans.
Helen
The god cast me out, ill-fated and accursed, from my country,
from my city, and from you, when I left my home and bed—yet I did not leave them—for a shameful marriage.
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Chorus Leader
If indeed you should find happiness in the future, it would be a match for the past.
Messenger
Menelaos, give me as well a share of that joy which I understand, but not clearly.
Menelaos
Come and take part in our talk, old man, you too.
Messenger
This woman is not the arbitrator of all the trouble in Troy?
Menelaos
She is not; I was tricked by the gods
and had in my arms the baneful image of a cloud.
Messenger
What are you saying? We suffered in vain for the sake of a cloud?
Menelaos
It was the work of Hera, and the rivalry of the three goddesses.
Messenger
And the one who is truly your wife is this woman here?
Menelaos
This is she; trust my word for that.

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