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 | | The two sons of Atreus are called the Atreidae._ HELEN, _most beautiful of women; daughter of Tyndareus, wife to _MENELAUeS_; beloved and carried off by Paris._ PARIS, _son of Priam, King of Troy, lover of Helen. |
 | | PRIAM, _the aged King of Troy._ _The Greeks are also referred to as Achaians, Argives, Danaans; Troy is also called Ilion._ _The play was produced in the archonship if Philocles_ (458 B.C.). |
 | | This waste of year-long vigil I have prayed God for some respite, watching elbow-stayed, As sleuthhounds watch, above the Atreidae's hall, Till well I know yon midnight festival Of swarming stars, and them that lonely go, Bearers to man of summer and of snow, Great lords and shining, throned in heavenly fire. |
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