[20] Worsley's Iliad, iii. 17. The other quotations are from the same version.

[21] "Thy own soul, gazing at him, became Kupris; for Aphrodite, as her name denotes, is all the folly of mortals."

[22] Quite another view of Helen's character is developed in the Helena, where Euripides has followed the Stesichorean version of her legend with singular disregard for consistency. Much might be said on this point about the license in handling mythical material the Attic dramatists allowed themselves.

[23]

Eastward was my glance directed,
Watching for the sun's first rays;
In the south—oh, sight of wonder!
Rose the bright orb's sudden blaze.

Thither was my eye attracted;
Vanished bay and mountain height,
Earth and heaven unseen and all things,
All but that enchanted light.—Anster.

[24] "The home of my wedded years, exceeding fair, filled with all the goods of life, which even in dreams methinks I shall remember."

[25] "I know well that Penelope is inferior to thee in form and stature, to the eyes of men."

[26] "Of a truth my goodliness and beauty of person the gods destroyed what time the Argives went up into Troy town."

[27] "For the nymph pleased him no longer. Nathless, as need was, he slept the night in hollow caverns, beside her loving him who loved her not."