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Despite your brave boasts and talk of courageous exploits your beauty is at variance with your claims. Paris, your body is better suited to loving than fighting. Leave war to strong men; you be a lover, always!
Connects to how book 3 of the Iliad ends. Lets herself be concurred. Paris is a lover while Menhilaus is a fighter. - The bedroom as a battlefield is common for this type of setting. => Common for the vibes of the elegy.
MILITAT OMNIS AMANS = Every Lover is a Fighter
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o, actually I don’t dispute such praise by her, I even incline to it: why deny the compliment I desire in my heart of hearts?
She then entirely switches it up here. Is this out of character for her?
Think back to the confrontation with Aphrodite, conflicting whether or not to let Paris sleep with her.
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HELEN TO PARIS
Fiction of women writing letters to men, notably famous women
The technologies of letters aren't present in the mythological timelines, it is an anachronism. Kinda like making a facebook page for a historic person.
Written by Ovid: Written in form of an elegy or elegiac couplets. - The first line is similar to epics. It is dactylic hexameter - The second one is a pentameter - Type of poem lends itself to a sense of longing
Heroides 16 pairs with Heroides 17, when 16 was written by Paris to Helen
Helen is saying that she is a virtuous wife and this is tarnishing her reputation, but she still maintains the crafty nature of her and manipulation.
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