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To: wideawake
I'm not aware of Homer describing Helen as "shimmering"

I think it's in the Oddyssey, where Telemachos pays her a visit while he is out looking for Dad. Of course, she was a little on the shady side of thirty by then.

41 posted on 10/18/2005 11:58:41 AM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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To: 19th LA Inf

Oddyssey = Odyssey


42 posted on 10/18/2005 12:00:13 PM PDT by 19th LA Inf
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To: 19th LA Inf

***I think it's in the Oddyssey, where Telemachos pays her a visit ***

True! Hellen and her husband Menelaus had many adventures on the way from Troy, being driven to Libya because they didn't offer proper sacrifices.

But more beautiful than Hellen was Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. When she walked among the suitors their knees became weak and they each desired to lay with her.


76 posted on 10/18/2005 2:02:24 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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