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Euripides, Helen, 262-263


εἴθ' ἐξαλειφθεῖς' ὡς ἄγαλμ' αὖθις πάλινMy life and all I do is a wonder, partly because of Hera, and partly my beauty is to blame. If only I could be rubbed out like a painting, and have again in turn a plainer form instead of beauty, and the Hellenes would have forgotten the evil fate that I now have


αἴσχιον εἶδος ἔλαβον ἀντὶ τοῦ καλοῦMy life and all I do is a wonder, partly because of Hera, and partly my beauty is to blame. If only I could be rubbed out like a painting, and have again in turn a plainer form instead of beauty, and the Hellenes would have forgotten the evil fate that I now have


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Euripides, Andromache, 891, 900, 911, 914, 920-950, 1032 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1032. μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν ̓Αργόθεν πορευθεὶς
2. 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.
3. Euripides, Helen, 10-11, 118, 12, 1240, 1243, 13, 132, 138, 14-16, 160-161, 164-169, 17, 170-173, 18-19, 198, 2, 20-25, 250, 26, 263, 27, 275-276, 28-29, 3, 30, 309, 31-32, 327, 33-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-54, 543, 55-58, 588, 59, 6, 60, 608-609, 61, 610-611, 62-63, 639, 64, 640-641, 65-67, 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
4. 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
5. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1007-1008, 1214, 1260, 900-974, 1006 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 369 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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



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agalma-ta Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708
agamemnon, seven against thebes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708
andromache Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
apollo Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
archê Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708
artemis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
bacchae Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
craft Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708
delphi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
eidôlon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708
euripides, helen Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 55
gorgias Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 331
griffiths, e. xxi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 331
helen, and double Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 55
helen Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 331, 708, 826
iphigenia at aulis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
opsis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 331
plato, politeia (republic) Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708
rehm, r. xxv Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
ritual Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
statues, as double Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 55
stieber, m. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708
supplication Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
technical vocabulary' Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 708