Cassandra by Kerry Greenwood

Author:Kerry Greenwood [Greenwood, Kerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Trilogy, Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780987160423
Publisher: Clan Destine Press
Published: 2014-07-11T03:27:29+00:00

Pariki on Mount Idus, watching the sheep graze,

Saw three women glowing with the sun's fire.

Bearing an apple came Hermes the God,

`Judge between them, most beautiful of shepherds,

Who is Kalliste, the fairest of them all?'

As he sang, I saw them in my mind's eye. The tall and commanding Mother, spindle in hand; the Warrior Maiden, helmeted, bearing aegeis, the goat's skin shield; the sinuous Ishtar, smiling, her hands running down her perfect body. Pariki offered kingdoms and wisdom, and choosing instead, as might have been guessed, the possession of Elene, Princess of Sparta.

His voice chanted on, describing his arrival at the palace, the foolish hospitality of Menelaus - fat, breathless, old and red-faced, hence deserving no courtesy - the stolen moments with almond-eyed, dark-haired Argive Elene, until she agreed to flee with him.

Then the driving of his ship by jealous gods across to Egypt, where the priestesses of Isis took Elene into their temple and refused to let her go. Pariki sang:

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