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Thread #91831   Message #1749667
Posted By: Amos
29-May-06 - 06:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Jesus as mythic god like Zeus
Subject: RE: BS: Jesus as mythic god like Zeus
Don:

It was not Goethe's Faustus, but Christopher Marlowe's, who cried out to Helen about her ship-launching and tower-burning powers, and asked for a kiss.

Viz, in Scne 13:

"Faustus:

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.
Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies.
Come, Helen, come give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena"

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