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Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 437 (search)
not here. Menelaos O my fortune, how we have been unworthily dishonored. Old woman Why are your eyes wet with tears? To whom are you lamenting? Menelaos To my fortunes, which were happy before this. Old woman Well then, why don't you go away and give these tears to your friends. Menelaos What is this land? Whose palace is this? Old woman Proteus lives here, the land is Egypt. Menelaos Egypt? O wretched, that I have sailed here! Old woman And why do you blame the bright gleam of the Nile? Menelaos I do not blame it; I am sighing for my fate. Old woman Many people are doing badly; you are not the only one. Menelaos Is the king you name in the house? Old woman This is his tomb; his son rules the land. Menelaos And where might he be? Abroad, or in the house? Old woman He is not inside; he is most bitterly opposed to the Hellenes. Menelaos What cause does he have? I have felt the consequences of it! Old woman Helen, the daughter of Zeus, is in this house. Menelaos What
Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 476 (search)
o Hellenes, for all that I spoke harshly to you in fear of my master. The old woman goes back into the palace. Menelaos What can I say? For after my former troubles, this present event that I hear of is an unhappy one, if I have come here, bringing my wife who was taken from Troy, and she is kept safe in the cave, but some other woman who has the same name as my wife lives in this house. She said the woman was born the child of Zeus. Can there be a man with the name of Zeus by the banks of Nile? For there is only one in heaven. Where in the world is there a Sparta, except by the streams of Eurotas, with its lovely reeds? The name of Tyndareus is the name of one alone. Is there any land of the same name as Lakedaimon or Troy? I do not know what to say; for there are probably many things in the wide world that have the same names, both cities and women; there is nothing, then, to marvel at. Besides, I will not run away from a servant's fears; for no man is so barbaric at heart as to
Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge), line 666 (search)
Helen Not to the bed of the young barbarian, on the wings of oars, on the wings of desire for lawless marriage— Menelaos What god or fate tore you from your country? Helen Ah, my husband! The son of Zeus, of Zeus, brought me to the Nile. Menelaos Amazing! Who sent you there? O dreadful story! Helen I have wept bitterly, and my eyes are wet with tears; the wife of Zeus ruined me. Menelaos Hera? Why did she want to bring trouble to the two of us? Helen Alas for my terrible fate, the baths and springs, where the goddesses brightened the beauty from which the judgment came. Menelaos Regarding the judgment, Hera made it a cause of these troubles for you? Helen To take me away from Paris— Menelaos How? Tell me. Helen To whom Kypris had promised me. Menelaos O unhappy one! Helen Unhappy, unhappy; and so she brought me to Egypt. Menelaos Then she gave him a phantom instead, as I hear from you. Helen Sorrow, sorrow to your house, mother, alas. Menelaos What do you mean? H
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 1, chapter 193 (search)
There is little rain in Assyria. This nourishes the roots of the grain; but it is irrigation from the river that ripens the crop and brings the grain to fullness. In Egypt, the river itself rises and floods the fields; in Assyria, they are watered by hand and by swinging beams.That is, by the “shadoof,” a familiar object to travellers on the Nile; a lever with a bucket attached, revolving on a post. For the whole land of Babylon, like Egypt, is cut across by canals. The greatest of these is navigable: it runs towards where the sun rises in winter, from the Euphrates to another river, the Tigris, on which stood the city of Ninus. This land is by far the most fertile in grain which we know. It does not even try to bear trees, fig, vine, or olive, but Demeter's grain is so abundant there that it yields for the most part two hundred fold, and even three hundred fold when the harvest is best. The blades of the wheat and barley there are easily four fingers broad; and for millet and sesame
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 4 (search)
d above the total, and thus the completed circle of seasons is made to agree with the calendar. Furthermore, the Egyptians (they said) first used the names of twelve godsThere is much obscurity about the “Twelve Gods.” This only appears to be clear, that eight (or nine) gods form the first order of the Egyptian hierarchy, and that there are twelve of the second rank. See Hdt. 2.43, and Rawlinson's essay (ch. 3 in his Appendix to Book II.). (which the Greeks afterwards borrowed from them); and it was they who first assigned to the several gods their altars and images and temples, and first carved figures on stone. Most of this they showed me in fact to be the case. The first human king of Egypt, they said, was Min. In his time all of Egypt except the Thebaicthe southern part of Upper Egypt. district was a marsh: all the country that we now see was then covered by water, north of lake Moeris,In the modern Fayyum, west of the Nile. which is seven days' journey up the river from the se
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 10 (search)
with great. For of the rivers that brought down the stuff to make these lands, there is none worthy to be compared for greatness with even one of the mouths of the Nile, and the Nile has five mouths. There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nile, that have had great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal amon of the mouths of the Nile, and the Nile has five mouths. There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nile, that have had great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal among them is the Achelous, which, flowing through Acarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland. of the mouths of the Nile, and the Nile has five mouths. There are also other rivers, not so great as the Nile, that have had great effects; I could rehearse their names, but principal among them is the Achelous, which, flowing through Acarnania and emptying into the sea, has already made half of the Echinades Islands mainland.
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 11 (search)
heads not far from each other. , whose length and width are such as I shall show: in length, from its inner end out to the wide sea, it is a forty days' voyage for a ship rowed by oars; and in breadth, it is half a day's voyage at the widest. Every day the tides ebb and flow in it. I believe that where Egypt is now, there was once another such gulf; this extended from the northern sea towards Aethiopia, and the other, the Arabian gulf of which I shall speak, extended from the south towards Syria; the ends of these gulfs penetrated into the country near each other, and but a little space of land separated them. Now, if the Nile inclined to direct its current into this Arabian gulf, why should the latter not be silted up by it inside of twenty thousand years? In fact, I expect that it would be silted up inside of ten thousand years. Is it to be doubted, then, that in the ages before my birth a gulf even much greater than this should have been silted up by a river so great and so busy?
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 13 (search)
ing much too short a period for a rise of eight cubits in the height of the Nile valley. Moeris had not been dead nine hundred years when I heard this from the priests. But now, if the river does not rise at least twenty-six or twenty-five feet, the land is not flooded. And, in my opinion, the Egyptians who inhabit the lands lower down the river than lake Moeris, and especially what is called the Delta—if this land of theirs rises in the same proportion and broadens likewise in extent, and the Nile no longer floods it—will forever after be in the same straits as they themselves once said the Greeks would be; for, learning that all the Greek land is watered by rain, but not by river water like theirs, they said that one day the Greeks would be let down by what they counted on, and miserably starve: meaning that, if heaven send no rain for the Greeks and afflict them with drought, the Greeks will be overtaken by famine, for there is no other source of water for them except Zeus alon
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 15 (search)
pt, and that its seaboard reaches from the so-called Watchtower of Perseus forty schoeni to the Salters' at Pelusium, while inland it stretches as far as the city of Cercasorus,At the southern point of the Delta, where the two main channels of the Nile divide, not far below Cairo. where the Nile divides and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is partly Libya and partly Arabia—if we follow this account, we can show that there was once no land for the Egyptians; for we hNile divides and flows to Pelusium and Canobus, and that all the rest of Egypt is partly Libya and partly Arabia—if we follow this account, we can show that there was once no land for the Egyptians; for we have seen that (as the Egyptians themselves say, and as I myself judge) the Delta is alluvial land and but lately (so to speak) came into being. Then if there was once no land for them, it was an idle notion that they were the oldest nation on earth, and they need not have made that trial to see what language the children would first speak. I maintain, rather, that the Egyptians did not come into existence together with what the Ionians call the Delta, but have existed since the human race came i
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley), Book 2, chapter 16 (search)
he Ionians are in error concerning Egypt; but if their opinion is right, then it is plain that they and the rest of the Greeks cannot reckon truly, when they divide the whole earth into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya; they must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belongs neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and Libya. he Ionians are in error concerning Egypt; but if their opinion is right, then it is plain that they and the rest of the Greeks cannot reckon truly, when they divide the whole earth into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya; they must add to these a fourth part, the Delta of Egypt, if it belongs neither to Asia nor to Libya; for by their showing the Nile is not the river that separates Asia and Libya; the Nile divides at the apex of this Delta, so that this land must be between Asia and Libya.
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