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Helen’s race

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Helen’s race
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Character
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Collective
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Claims

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·Reported

Eumaeus wishes Helen’s whole race destroyed while blaming Helen for the deaths of many good men.

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“I wish that Helen’s whole race were utterly destroyed, for she has been the death of many a good man”

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“Helen’s whole race”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 4

To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus, ‘Stranger, though a still poorer man should come here, it would not be right for me to insult him, for all strangers and beggars are from Jove. You must take what you can get and be thankful, for servants live in fear when they have young lords for their masters; and this is my misfortune now, for heaven has hindered the return of him who would have been always good to me and given me something of my own—a house, a piece of land, a good looking wife, and all else that a liberal master allows a servant who has worked hard for him, and whose labour the gods have prospered as they have mine in the situation which I hold. If my master had grown old here he would have done great things by me, but he is gone, and I wish that Helen’s whole race were utterly destroyed, for she has been the death of many a good man. It was this matter that took my master to Ilius, the land of noble steeds, to fight the Trojans in the cause of king Agamemnon.’