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  • Speech 4: Panegyricus
  • Speech 5: To Philip
  • Speech 6: Archidamus
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  • Speech 11: Busiris
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    Isocrates, Speeches and Letters (ed. George Norlin)

    Helen

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. George Norlin) | English (ed. George Norlin)
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    [37] In consequence, Theseus passed his life beloved of his people and not the object of their plots, not preserving his sovereignty by means of alien military force, but protected, as by a bodyguard, by the goodwill of the citizens1 , by virtue of his authority ruling as a king, but by his benefactions as a popular leader; for so equitably and so well did he administer the city that even to this day traces of his clemency may be seen remaining in our institutions.

    [38] As for Helen, daughter of Zeus, who established her power over such excellence and sobriety, should she not be praised and honored, and regarded as far superior to all the women who have ever lived? For surely we shall never have a more trustworthy witness or more competent judge of Helen's good attributes than the opinion of Theseus. But lest I seem through poverty of ideas to be dwelling unduly upon the same theme and by misusing the glory of one man to be praising Helen, I wish now to review the subsequent events also.

    [39] After the descent of Theseus to Hades, when Helen returned to Lacedaemon, and was now of marriageable age, all the kings and potentates of that time formed of her the same opinion; for although it was possible for them in their own cities to wed women of the first rank, they disdained wedlock at home and went to Sparta to woo Helen.

    1 Cf. Isoc. 2.21.

    There are a total of 3 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Cross references from Sir Richard Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus:
    *: oud' epaktôi dunamei

    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    409 [a) Akkusativ bei transitiven Verben, sowie bei transitiv gebrauchten Intransitiven.]

    Cross references from Edward S. Forster, Isocrates Cyprian Orations:
    2, 21

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    Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.
    OCLC: 17454675
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