The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say
that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to
Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A
fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555
B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know
of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.
Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend
but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris,
Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with
the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.
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