Helen - Softcover

Euripides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537027573 ISBN 13: 9781537027579

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Euripides is known in literature & fiction circles as a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Euripides is one of the few whose dramas & plays have survived. Ancient & medieval scholars have attributed 95 dramas & plays to Euripides, of which 19 are known to have survived more or less complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama & plays down to modern times. He was unique among the writers of ancient & medieval Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women. Helen a romantic drama & play centers on Helen who receives word from the exiled Greek Teucer that Menelaus never returned to Greece from Troy and is presumed dead, putting Helen in the perilous position of being available for Theoclymenus to marry, and she consults the prophetess Theonoe, sister to Theoclymenus, to find out Menelaus's fate. Helen's fears are allayed when a stranger arrives in Egypt and turns out to be Menelaus himself, and the long-separated couple recognize each other. The Helen drama & play was first produced in 412 BC.

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From the Back Cover:

Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. Her surpassing beauty was said to have launched the Greek fleet of a thousand ships to Troy. No woman was so adored and so hated. She was seen as both prize and scapegoat, the promise of bliss and the assurance of doom.

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About the Translators:
James Michie is translator of The Odes of Horace and The Centennial Hymn. Colin Leach is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1537027573
• ISBN 13: 9781537027579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58