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Euripides, Helen, 26


μορφῆς θέλουσαι διαπεράνασθαι κρίσιν.Hera and Kypris, and the virgin daughter of Zeus, wishing to have the judgment of their loveliness decided. Kypris offered my beauty, if misfortune is beautiful, for Paris to marry, and so she won. Paris , the shepherd of Ida, left his ox-stall


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1. Homer, Iliad, 24.27-24.30 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

24.27. /And the thing was pleasing unto all the rest, yet not unto Hera or Poseidon or the flashing-eyed maiden, but they continued even as when at the first sacred Ilios became hateful in their eyes and Priam and his folk, by reason of the sin of Alexander, for that he put reproach upon those goddesses when they came to his steading 24.28. /And the thing was pleasing unto all the rest, yet not unto Hera or Poseidon or the flashing-eyed maiden, but they continued even as when at the first sacred Ilios became hateful in their eyes and Priam and his folk, by reason of the sin of Alexander, for that he put reproach upon those goddesses when they came to his steading 24.29. /And the thing was pleasing unto all the rest, yet not unto Hera or Poseidon or the flashing-eyed maiden, but they continued even as when at the first sacred Ilios became hateful in their eyes and Priam and his folk, by reason of the sin of Alexander, for that he put reproach upon those goddesses when they came to his steading 24.30. /and gave precedence to her who furthered his fatal lustfulness. But when at length the twelfth morn thereafter was come, then among the immortals spake Phoebus Apollo:Cruel are ye, O ye gods, and workers of bane. Hath Hector then never burned for you thighs of bulls and goats without blemish?
2. Euripides, Andromache, 274-292, 891, 900, 911, 914, 920-950, 1032 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1032. μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν ̓Αργόθεν πορευθεὶς
3. Euripides, Bacchae, 1116-1124, 1115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1115. καὶ προσπίτνει νιν· ὃ δὲ μίτραν κόμης ἄπο 1115. and fell upon him. He threw the headband from his head so that the wretched Agave might recognize and not kill him. Touching her cheek, he said: It is I, mother, your son, Pentheus, whom you bore in the house of Echion.
4. Euripides, Hecuba, 649, 644 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

644. ἐκρίθη δ' ἔρις, ἃν ἐν ̓́Ι-
5. Euripides, Helen, 10-11, 118, 12, 1240, 1243, 1291-1299, 13, 1300-1309, 132, 138, 14-16, 160-161, 164-169, 17, 170-173, 18-19, 198, 2, 20-25, 250, 262-263, 27, 275-276, 28-29, 3, 30, 309, 31-32, 327, 33-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-54, 543, 55-59, 6, 60-67, 7, 73, 8, 894-899, 9, 900-943, 947-948, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. Νείλου μὲν αἵδε καλλιπάρθενοι ῥοαί 1. These are the lovely pure streams of the Nile , which waters the plain and lands of Egypt , fed by white melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus was king of this land when he was alive
6. Euripides, Ion, 1313-1319, 1333-1334, 1312 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1312. Oh! ’tis passing strange how badly the deity hath enacted laws for mortal men, contrary to all sound judgment; for instance, they should ne’er have suffered impious men to sit at their altars
7. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1007-1008, 1214, 1260, 900-974, 1006 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 1450-1461, 369, 1449 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Euripides, Medea, 1334 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Euripides, Orestes, 383-469, 479-481, 491-541, 544, 671-716, 382 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. Euripides, Trojan Women, 924-931, 923 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

12. Aristotle, Rhetoric, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

13. Apollodorus, Epitome, 3.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3.2. διὰ δὴ τούτων μίαν αἰτίαν μῆλον περὶ κάλλους Ἔρις ἐμβάλλει Ἥρᾳ καὶ Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ Ἀφροδίτῃ, καὶ κελεύει Ζεὺς 1 -- Ἑρμῆν εἰς Ἴδην πρὸς Ἀλέξανδρον ἄγειν, ἵνα ὑπʼ ἐκείνου διακριθῶσι. αἱ δὲ ἐπαγγέλλονται δῶρα δώσειν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ, Ἥρα μὲν πασῶν προκριθεῖσα βασιλείαν πάντων, 2 -- Ἀθηνᾶ δὲ πολέμου νίκην, Ἀφροδίτη δὲ γάμον Ἑλένης. ὁ δὲ 3 -- Ἀφροδίτην προκρίνει καὶ πηξαμένου Φερέκλου ναῦς 4 -- εἰς Σπάρτην ἐκπλέει. 3.2. For one of these reasons Strife threw an apple as a prize of beauty to be contended for by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite; and Zeus commanded Hermes to lead them to Alexander on Ida in order to be judged by him. And they promised to give Alexander gifts. Hera said that if she were preferred to all women, she would give him the kingdom over all men; and Athena promised victory in war, and Aphrodite the hand of Helen. And he decided in favour of Aphrodite As to the judgment of Paris (Alexander), see Hom. Il. 24.25ff. ; Cypria, in Proclus, Chrestom. i. (Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, ed. G. Kinkel, pp. 16ff.) ; Eur. Tro. 924ff. ; Eur. IA 1290ff. ; Eur. Hel. 23ff. ; Eur. And. 274ff. ; Isoc. 10.41 ; Lucian, Dial. Deorum 20, Dial. marin. 5 ; Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 93 ; Hyginus, Fab. 92 ; Serv. Verg. A. 1.27 ; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 65ff., 142ff. (First Vatican Mythographer 208; Second Vatican Mythographer 205) . The story ran that all the gods and goddesses, except Strife, were invited to attend the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, and that Strife, out of spite at being overlooked, threw among the wedding guests a golden apple inscribed with the words, “Let the fair one take it,” or “The apple for the fair.” Three goddesses, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite, contended for this prize of beauty, and Zeus referred the disputants to the judgment of Paris. The intervention of Strife was mentioned in the Cypria according to Proclus, but without mention of the golden apple, which first appears in late writers, such as Lucian and Hyginus. The offers made by the three divine competitors to Paris are recorded with substantial agreement by Eur. Tro. 924ff., Isocrates, Lucian, and Apollodorus. Hyginus is also in harmony with them, if in his text we read fortissimum for the formissimum of the MSS., for which some editors wrongly read formosissimum . The scene of the judgment of Paris was represented on the throne of Apollo at Amyclae and on the chest of Cypselus at Olympia ( Paus. 3.8.12 ; Paus. 5.19.5 ). ; and sailed away to Sparta with ships built by Phereclus. Compare Hom. Il. 5.59ff., from which we learn that the shipbuilder was a son of Tecton, who was a son of Harmon. The names of his father and grandfather indicate, as Dr. Leaf observes, that the business had been carried on in the family for three generations. Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 97 .


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aetiology Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
agamemnon, eumenides Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
andromache Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
apollo Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
aristotle de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
artemis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
athena Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
athenaeus, on the judgment (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
athens Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
audience de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
bacchae Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
barbarians de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
catharsis de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
creusa (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
cultural interconnection, greek-egyptian Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
delphi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
dialogue, in drama de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
emotions, shame de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
empathy de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
euripides, vs. sophocles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
euripides de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
fools, the (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
fragments, of sophocles works Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
gorgias de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
hecuba de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
helen Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
iphigenia at aulis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
judgment, the (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
kolchides (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
kophoi saturikoi (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
kreousa (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
krisis saturike (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
lloyd, m. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
medea Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
menelaus Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
narrative/narration passim, micro-narrative in tragedy de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
pain/suffering de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
paradox, herodotus and Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
paris/alexander of troy de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
paris and helen Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
plays, lost Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
priests, of memphis' Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
proteus Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
realism Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
rehm, r. xxv Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
ritual Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
scullion, s. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
sophocles, lost plays and fragments of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576
stern, j.p. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
supplication Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
trojan war, egyptian story of Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
trojan war de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
trojan women de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
troy de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
women, perspective of de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 333
women of colchis, the (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 576