Helen in EgyptNew Directions Publishing, 1974 - 304 sayfa The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism. |
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Sayfa vii - Helen was never in Troy. She had been transposed or translated from Greece into Egypt. Helen of Troy was a phantom, substituted for the real Helen, by jealous deities.
Sayfa 5 - How did we greet each other? here in this Amen-temple, I have all-time to remember; he comes, he goes; I do not know that memory calls him, or what Spirit-master summons him to release (as God released him) the imprisoned, the lost; few were the words we said, but the words are graven on stone, minted on gold, stamped upon lead; they are coins of a treasure or the graded weights of barter and measure; "I am a woman of pleasure...
Sayfa xii - King of Myrmidons, unconquerable, a mountain and a grave, Achilles; few were the words we said, nor knew each other, nor asked, are you Spirit? are you sister? are you brother? are you alive? are you dead? the harpers will sing forever of how Achilles met Helen among the shades, but we were not, we are not shadows; as we walk, heel and sole leave our sandal-prints in the sand, though the wounded heel treads lightly and more lightly follow, the purple sandals.
Sayfa vii - Stesichorus was said to have been struck blind because of his invective against Helen, but later was restored to sight, when he reinstated her in his Pallinode. Euripides, notably in The Trojan Women, reviles her, but he also is "restored to sight.