OCR GCE A LEVEL CLASSICAL CIVILISATION PAPER 1 QUESTION PAPER 2023 (H408/11: The World of the Hero)

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Passage A
Homer, Iliad, 3.384–420
Aphrodite found Helen on the high tower, surrounded by Trojan women. The goddess put
out her hand, tugged at her sweet-smelling robe and spoke to her in the disguise of an old
woman she was very fond of, a wool-worker who used to comb the wool for Helen when she
lived in Lacedaemon. Mimicking this woman, celestial Aphrodite spoke to her:
‘Come here! Paris wants you to go home to him. There he is in his bedroom, on the inlaid
bed, dazzling in looks and dress. You would never believe he had just come from a duel. You
would think he was going to a dance or had just stepped off the floor and sat down to rest.’
So she spoke, and her words went straight to Helen’s heart. But when she noticed the
superb neck, desirable breasts and sparkling eyes of the goddess, she was shocked and
spoke to her:
‘Mysterious goddess, why are you trying to lead me on like this? You are plotting, I suppose,
to carry me off to some still more distant town, in Phrygia or lovely Maeonia, to gratify some
other favourite of yours who may be living in those parts. Or is it that Menelaus has beaten
Paris and wants to take me back home, me, his loathsome wife – so now you have come to
try to lure me back to Paris?
‘No, go and sit with him yourself. Forget you are a goddess. Never set foot on Olympus
again but go and agonize over Paris, go and pamper him, and one day he may make you
his wife – or his concubine. I refuse to go and share this man’s bed again – it would be quite
wrong. There is not a woman in Troy who would not blame me if I did. I have enough trouble
to put up with already.’
Enraged, celestial Aphrodite spoke to her:
‘Obstinate wretch! Don’t get the wrong side of me, or I may desert you in my anger and
detest you as vehemently as I have loved you up till now, and provoke Greeks and Trojans
alike to such hatred of you that you would come to a dreadful end.’
So she spoke, and Helen, child of Zeus, was terrified. She wrapped herself up in her shining
white robe and went off in silence.
Translation: E.V. Rieu

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