flores-et-dracones:‘Stop blaming Helen for the annihilation of armies. As if her little flutter, all
flores-et-dracones:‘Stop blaming Helen for the annihilation of armies. As if her little flutter, all on its own, could have unloosed all this misery on so many.‘ - Clytemnestra, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon‘Oh how could you? And how could your unhappy brother, Orestes, be the man to take his mother’s life?… I weep for Clytemnestra. She was my sister. Since that day when, in a god-sent ecstasy - that was the truth - I sailed to Troy, I had not seen her, Now I feel lonely and lost, and weep for what has happened to us.' - Helen, Euripides’ Orestes -- source link
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