Posted on 09/17/2011 6:36:12 AM PDT by marktwain
I don’t remember the name of the movie, but the dialogue went like this:
“Well, I went to jail.”
“Really? What for?”
“I came home and found my Wife in bed with my best friend. So I shot her.”
“You shot HER?”
“He was my best friend.”
I think the movie was was Bronco Billy.
“Sounds to me like the 24 YO needed some place to stay while her boyfriend was in jail.”
BINGO!!
not guilty...damn
women...man...the drama they create
Paris was part of a trade delegation along with Hector, his older brother. Paris met Helen in Sparta where she, as Meneleus wife, was Queen. Since they were both princes of Troy, this was an official state visit.
By supposedly “seducing” Helen and “kidnapping” her, the insult and injury was not merely a private matter but an affront against the state by agents of another state. Meneleus appeals to other Greek kings for support in expunging this stain on Greek honor and hospitality and the rest, as they say, is “history.”
(It’s history in a fairly loose sense of the word since we know something like a seige and sacking happened at Troy at about the right time period (@1400 B.C.). But we cannot determine how much the event related in the Illiad correlates with evidence on the ground. If we could just find the funeral mounds for Hector or Achilles, then things would be different...)
Yep
I know. He seduced Helen--but Artemis didn't make him do the original deed, nor did she plop Helen into his bed so nature would take its course, which is what it sounded like the post I originally replied to was implying.
How bright the face of heaven
and how sweet the air this day
that layeth at my my feet..
Ah, but Paris lieth this long day
By God’s grace
Under the horse hooves of the Greek
and all about him, his land...
From the Trojan Women, Euripides, Menelaus’s first speech as conqueror.
don’t ask me why I Posted this - came from the cloud...
Aristophanes? Sorry...had to ask.
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