Lysimachus pericles biography summary

She has established herself in an "honest house" where she has many pupils of the "noble race.

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As for Pericles, the winds carry his ship to Mytilene, during the annual feast of Neptune, the sea god. Lysimachus, as governor, pays him an official visit. He is greeted by Helicanus, Pericles' trusted adviser. Helicanus tells the governor that he cannot meet Pericles, who is in mourning and depression, speaking to no one. Lysimachus suggests a remedy for the problem, offering to bring Marina to visit.

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He is confident her music will "make a battery through his deafen'd parts" and break through his grief. Lysimachus even says that if he were sure she had noble blood, he would gladly marry her himself. When Marina arrives and sings, Pericles is unmoved. She begins to talk of her own loss, hoping to strike a sympathetic chord. Her story and her resemblance to his wife move him.

He begins to listen. When she mentions her name he is stunned and believes the gods are mocking him through her. When at last he knows her true identity, Pericles bursts out: "Give me a gash, put me to present pain; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me O'erbear the shores of my mortality And drown me with their sweetness. He falls asleep and sees the Goddess Diana in a vision.

She commands him to go to her temple at Ephesus.