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Helen

Euripidés Original title Ἑλένη

Helen is a drama by Euripides about Helen, first produced in 412 BC for the Dionysia in a trilogy that also contained Euripides' lost Andromeda. The play has much in common with Iphigenia in Tauris, one of the playwright's later works.


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“Man's most valuable trait
is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”

The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides II: Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women. Ion. Rhesus. The suppliant women by David Grene, Richmond Alexander Lattimore (eds.), Modern Library, 1963, p. 73

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“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

Helen (412 BC), as translated by Richmond Lattimore

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