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Γραικύλος schrieb am 18.04.2021 um 19:47 Uhr (Zitieren)
Pausanias III (Lakonia) 19:
[...] The name of Therapne is derived from the daughter of Lelex, and in it is a temple of Menelaus; they say that Menelaus and Helen were buried here.

The account of the Rhodians is different. They say that when Menelaus was dead, and Orestes still a wanderer, Helen was driven out by Nicostratus and Megapenthes and came to Rhodes, where she had a friend in Polyxo, the wife of Tlepolemus (1). For Polyxo, they say, was an Argive be descent, and when she was already married to Tlepolemus shared his flight to Rhodes. At the time she was queen of the island, having been left with an orphan boy. They say that this Polyxo desired to avenge the death of Tlepolemus on Helen, now she had her in her power. So she sent against her when she was bathing handmaidens dressed up as Furies, who seized Helen and hanged her on a tree, and for this reason the Rhodians have a sanctuary of Helen of the Tree [ἐπὶ δένδρου].

A story too I will tell which I know the people of Crotona tell about Helen. The people of Himera too agree with this account. In the Euxine a the mouths of the Ister (2) is an island sacred to Achilles. It is called White Island, and its circumference is twenty stades. It is wooded throughout and abounds in animals, wild and tame, while on it is a temple of Achilles with an image of him. The first to sail thither legend says was Leonymus of Crotona. For when war had arisen between the people of Crotona and the Locri in Italy, the Locri, in virtue of the relationship between them and the Opuntians, called upon Ajax son of Oileus to help them in battle. So Leonymus the general of the people of Crotona attacked his enemy at the point where he heard that Ajax was posted in the front line.

Now he was wounded in the breast, and weak with his hurt came to Delphi. When he arrived the Pythian priestess sent Leonymus to White Island, telling him that there Ajax would appear to him and cure his wound. In time he was healed and returned from White Island, where, he used to declare, he saw Achilles, as well as Ajax the son of Oileus and Ajax the son of Telamon. With them, he said, were Patroclus and Antilochus; Helen was wedded to Achilles, and had bidden him sail to Stesichorus (3) at Himera, and announce that the loss of his sight was caused by her wrath.

(Pausanias: Description of Greece; Books III-V, ed. by W. H. S. Jones and H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge (Mass.) / London 1926, pp. 122-125)

(1) Führer des rhodischen Kontingents bei der Belagerung Trojas, getötet durch Sarpedon (Ilias V 628-662)
(2) Donau
(3) Dichter, der Helena verspottet hatte
 
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