![]() ![]() Ship in which she had been abducted by Paris was blown off course and made The Helen within the walls of Troy actually was a Was not so suitable to the composition of his poem as the other which heįollowed" (Herodotus, Histories, II.112-120 also Euripides, Helen), The wife of Menelaus, is herself stranded in Egypt. ![]() There is a variant of Homer's epic, one in which Helen, Offerings, he could return home (also Hyginus, Fables, CXVIII). He had been marooned by the gods and how, by appeasing them with burnt Grappling with the seer and holding him tight was Menelaus able to learn why It was ruled by Proteus, the prophetic, polymorphic "Old Man of the Sea" who resided in caves along the shore, bedded down with his Landing beach where crews pull in, draw water from the dark wells then push their vessels off for passage out" (IV.395ff). There's an island out in the ocean's heavy surge, well off the EgyptianĬoast-they call it Pharos.There's a snug harbor there, good Menelaus was said to have been stranded on his return from Troy. Only harbor in the "long and painful way" to Egypt ( Odyssey, Prominent landmarks by which a mariner could plot a course. The low and featureless coastline of Egypt, with its broad delta and endless desert, It, some of them on marshy and swampy places and others on a desert region."ĭiodorus Siculus, Library of History (I.31.2-5) Run aground and now and then mariners who cannot see land in time because the country lies so low are cast ashore before they realize Peril of the sea, and in their ignorance turn with gladness towards the shore, suffer unexpected shipwreck when their vessels suddenly Consequently those who think that they have escaped the And, apart from these considerations, a sandbank extends along practically the whole length of Egypt, notĭiscernible to any who approach without previous experience of these waters. Paraetonium in Libya as far as Iopê in Coele-Syria, a voyage along the coast of some five thousand stades, there is not to be found a "The voyage along the coast of this sea is exceedingly long, and any landing is especially difficult for from Return to Library Pharos: The Lighthouse at ![]()
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