Helen (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Euripides
- First Published: 412
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Love
- Time of Work: Seven years after the sack of Troy
- Setting: Egypt
- Principal Characters: Helen, Menelaus, Theoclymenus, Theonoe
- Genres: Fable, Drama, Adventure, Folklore
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Love or romance, War, Kings, queens, or royalty, Legends, Gods or goddesses, Kidnapping, Egypt or Egyptians, Greek or Roman times, Braggarts, Trojan War
- Locales: Egypt, ancient
The Story:
Helen prayed before the tomb of Proteus, late king of Egypt, who had protected her from any dishonor while her husband Menelaus was leading the Greek hosts at the siege of Troy in the mistaken belief that the phantom Helen, carried off by Paris, son of the Trojan king, was really his wife. She recalled that when the three goddesses, Hera, Cypris (Aphrodite), and Athena had appeared before Paris and asked him to judge which was the fairest, Cypris had promised him Helen as a prize for choosing her. Hera, enraged at being rejected, had caused a phantom Helen to be...
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Euripides (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Euripides (Drama)Euripides (Encyclopedia of the Ancient World)
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