Isocrates, Helen, Larue Van Hook (Translator), 63

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[63] And I can produce the city of the Spartans, which preserves with especial care its ancient traditions, as witness for the fact; for even to the present day at Therapne¹ in Laconia the people offer holy and traditional sacrifices to them both, not as to heroes, but as to gods.

Helen. Isocrates. Larue Van Hook (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1945.

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Helen (English) (Isocrates, Vol. 3. Van Hook, Larue, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1945 (printing).)

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[63] καὶ τούτοις ἔχω τὴν πόλιν τὴν Σπαρτιατῶν τὴν μάλιστα τὰ παλαιὰ διασῴζουσαν ἔργῳ παρασχέσθαι μαρτυροῦσαν· ἔτι γὰρ καὶ νῦν ἐν Θεράπναις τῆς Λακωνικῆς θυσίας αὐτοῖς ἁγίας καὶ πατρίας ἀποτελοῦσιν οὐχ ὡς ἥρωσιν ἀλλʼ ὡς θεοῖς ἀμφοτέροις οὖσιν.

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Helen

1. Just outside Sparta were the tombs of Menelaus and Helen (see Pausanias iii. 19.9) and their sanctuary (Herodotus vi. 61).

Isocrates Helen 63

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