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"To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend. [ 1 ] It was first published in the 1831 collection Poems of Edgar A. Poe.
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Paris to Helen, trying to persuade her to leave her husband, Menelaus, and go with him to Troy; XVII. Helen's reply to Paris, revealing her readiness to leave Menelaus for him; XVIII. Leander to Hero, on his love for her; XIX. Hero's reply to Leander, on her love for him; XX. Acontius to Cydippe, on his love for her, reminding her of her ...
Helen: Palinodes: An introduction to a poem of Theocritus refers to "the first book of Stesichorus's Helen", [77] indicating that there were at least two books under this title. Similarly, a commentary recorded on a papyrus, indicates there were two Palinodes, one censuring Homer, the other Hesiod for the false story that Helen went to Troy. [ 78 ]
As well as Homer's Helen, the poem has been seen as responding to, or being responded to by, Alcaeus' portrayal of Helen in fragments 283 and 42. [28] Ruby Blondell argues that Sappho's portrayal of Helen is much more concerned with her agency than Alcaeus' is. While in Alcaeus, Paris is the "deceiver of his host", in Sappho his role is more of ...
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Andromeda (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομέδα, Androméda) is a lost tragedy written by Euripides, based on the myth of Andromeda and first produced in 412 BC, in a trilogy that also included Euripides' Helen. Andromeda may have been the first depiction on stage of a young man falling in love with a woman. The play has been lost; however, a ...
He is presented as a potential suitor to Helen of Troy. He is then obliged to take a blood oath in defense of her marriage to Menelaus. After Patroclus accidentally kills the son of one of his father's nobles, he is exiled to Phthia, where he meets Achilles, the son of Phthia's king, Peleus, and the sea nymph Thetis. They become close friends ...