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What's Gorgias excuse for Helen and the Fall of Trpy
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What's Gorgias excuse for Helen and the Fall of Trpy
Gorgias's Encomium of Helen undertakes to free Helen of Troy from blame for having abandoned her husband for the Trojan prince Paris, triggering the Trojan War. His method is argument by the exhaustion of alternatives. Helen's action must have been caused either by fate, necessity and the will of the Gods, by force, by persuasion, or by erotic love.
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