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This, the priests said, was how Helen came to Proteus. And, in my opinion, Homer knew this story, too; but seeing that it was not so well suited to epic poetry as the tale of which he made use, he rejected it, showing that he knew it.
This, the priests said, was how Helen came to Proteus. And, in my opinion, Homer knew this story, too; but seeing that it was not so well suited to epic poetry as the tale of which he made use, he rejected it, showing that he knew it.
[2] This is apparent from the passage in the
Iliad (and nowhere else does he return to the story) where he relates the wanderings of
Alexander, and shows how he and
Helen were carried off course, and wandered to, among other places,
+Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia
Sidon
in
+Phoenicia (region (general)), Asia
Phoenicia
.
[3] This is in the story of the Prowess of
Diomedes, where the verses run as follows:
Hom. Il. 6.289-92
There were the robes, all embroidered,
The work of women of
+Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia
Sidon
, whom godlike
Alexandrus himself
Brought from
+Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia
Sidon
, crossing the broad sea,
The same voyage on which he brought back
Helen of noble descent.
[4] [He mentions it in the
Odyssey also:
Hom. Od. 4.227-30
]
The daughter of
Zeus had such ingenious drugs,
Good ones, which she had from
Thon's wife,
Polydamna, an
Egyptian,
Whose country's fertile plains bear the most drugs,
Many mixed for good, many for harm:
[5] and again
Menelaus says to
Telemachus:
Hom. Od. 4. 351-2
I was eager to return here, but the gods still held me in
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
,
Since I had not sacrificed entire hecatombs to them.
[6]
In these verses the poet shows that he knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt ; for +Syria [38,35] (nation), Asia Syria borders on Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , and the Phoenicians, to whom +Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Sidon belongs, dwell in +Syria [38,35] (nation), Asia Syria .
In these verses the poet shows that he knew of Alexander's wanderings to Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt ; for +Syria [38,35] (nation), Asia Syria borders on Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt , and the Phoenicians, to whom +Sidon [35.366,33.55] (inhabited place), Al-Janub, Lebanon, Asia Sidon belongs, dwell in +Syria [38,35] (nation), Asia Syria .
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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