...it, while his own pictures of womanhood, from Alcestis downward, show the finest touches of appreciation. Iphigenia refuses to be saved from the sacrifice, and insists on dying for her country; and Achilles , who would fain save and wed her, says: I deem Greece happy in thee, and thee in Greece; nobly hast thou spoken. In the Troades, Hecuba warns Menelaus that, if Helen is allowed on the same ship wi...