timeripple: (Agamemnon's roof)
timeripple ([personal profile] timeripple) wrote2006-03-27 03:37 pm

e gar gamein tis tam' eboulethe leche?

Menelaus, shipwrecked and having just learned that he fought the Trojan War over a phantom, learns of the real Helen's plight in Egypt (loosely translated):

Helen: Flee as quickly as possible, leaving this land. For you would die at the hands of the man whose house this is.
Menelaus: What thing have I done that is worthy of this disaster?
Helen: You have arrived unexpectedly, interrupting my marriage.
Menelaus: Wait, some guy wants to marry my wife?!

Hey, I've got a cold. I've got to stay amused somehow.