Question

In a play, this figure asks to be “rubbed out like a painting” and contemplates an unwanted marriage and suicide before being told to “question the daughter of the sea-nymph.” They’re not Busiris, but most of an Isocrates oration named for this figure is spent lauding a person who tried to abduct them. In a play titled for this figure, a man pretends to be a messenger heralding his own death in order to obtain a ship for a sea-burial and uses the ship to escape. It is “an equal error” to “blame the praisable” and “praise the blamable,” according to (*) a Gorgias (10[1]-5[1])encomium (10[1])of this figure. (10[1])After being blinded for slandering this figure, Stesichorus wrote a (10[1])“Palinode.” (10[1])In a Euripides drama, this figure languishes (10[1])in Theoclymenus’ palace, having been replaced by a Hera-crafted (-5[1])“phantom” and sent to Egypt. For 10 points, (10[1])name this woman who mocks her husband after he is rescued by Aphrodite from a duel with Menelaus in the Iliad. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Helen [or Helen of Troy, Helen of Sparta, Helene, or Helena] (The second line refers to Theseus’s abduction of Helen.)
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