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"Ah me! ye Sirens, Earth's virgin daughters, winged maids, come, oh! come to aid my mourning, bringing with you the Libyan flute or pipe, to waft to Persephone's ear a tearful plaint, the echo of my sorrow, with grief for grief, and mournful chant for chant, with songs of death and doom to match my lamentation, that in return she may receive from me, besides my tears, dirges for the departed dead beneath her gloomy roof!"
Most beautiful harmony
"LEADER: … And I will myself go in with thee, and with thee inquire of the maiden’s oracles; for ‘tis a woman’s bounden duty to share a sister’s trouble."
ayyy feminism!
"MENELAUS
I come as a shipwrecked man and a stranger, whom heaven protects.
PORTRESS
Well, get thee to some other house than this."
+5 women
"MENELAUS
When? Surely I have never been robbed of my wife from the cave!"
poor Menelaus, even when he shoves his wife into a cave she gets taken from him
"MENELAUS
No robber I, or minister of evil.
HELEN
At any rate the garb wherein thou art clad is unseemly."
consider yourself sassed*