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Helen

EuripidésOriginal 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.

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

Euripidés Helen

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

“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

Euripidés Helen

Helen (412 BC), as translated by Richmond Lattimore