Euripides: 'Helen'
Euripides: 'Helen'

Author: Euripides

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-02-21

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 0521836905

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Detailed commentary, suitable for students, on one of the most skilful and original Greek tragedies.

The Helena of Euripides
The Helena of Euripides

Author: Euripides

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019136874

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The Helena of Euripides
The Helena of Euripides

Author: A. C. Pearson

Publisher: Trieste Publishing

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780649081752

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The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen
The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen

Author: C. W. Marshall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-12-04

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1107073758

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In his detailed study of Euripides' play, Helen, C. W. Marshall expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and Classical performance.

Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom

Author: Norman Austin

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-09-05

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1501720708

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Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy, but remained blameless, while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy. Comparing the functions of contradictory images of Helen, Austin helps to clarify the problematic relations between beauty and honor and between ugliness and shame in ancient Greece. Austin first discusses the canonical account of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Helen as the archetype of woman without shame. He next considers different versions of Helen in the Homeric tradition. Among these, he shows how Sappho presents Helen as an icon of absolute beauty while she defends her own preference of eros over honor and her choice of woman as the object of desire. Austin then turns to three major authors who repudiated the traditional Helen of Troy: the lyric poet Stesichorus and the dramatist Euripides, who embraced the alternative myth of Helen's phantom; and the historian Herodotus, who claimed to have found in Egypt a Helen story that dispenses with both Helen and the phantom. Austin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, though none have endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition.

Helen
Helen

Author: Euripides

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 0195077105

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Transcending the literal bounds of genre, Euripides' Helen has been characterized as both a comedy and a tragedy. In this evocative translation by James Michie and Colin Leach, Euripides' delicate balance--in all its subtlety of texture and tone--is beautifully captured. Finding its source in a myth ascribed to the Sicilian poet Stesichorus, this drama centers on the myth of two Helens--a god-wrought phantom that was carried of by Paris to Troy, and the real, flesh-and-blood Helen who was mysteriously sent to Egypt. The reader encounters myriad reversals, worlds--real/ideal, tragic/comic--surprisingly juxtaposed and, as in any story of Helen, the pathos of the impossible, all allowing Euripides to comment of the futility of war and the difficult distinction between appearance and reality.