This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural
analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the
variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than
any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife (not an
adulteress) who went to Egypt (not to Troy), Euripides' 'new Helen'
skilfully transforms and supplants earlier currents of literature
and myth. The Introduction elucidates Euripides' treatment of Helen
and sets the play in its wider intellectual context. It also
discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such
descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing
how later artists have responded to Euripides' unorthodox heroine
and her phantom double. The Commentary's notes on language and
style are intended to make Helen fully accessible to readers of
Greek at all levels, while the edition as a whole is designed for
use by anyone with an interest in Greek tragedy.
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