Euripide

Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and …

Hélène est une tragédie grecque d'Euripide, sans doute représentée pour la première fois à la Grande Dionysie de 412 av. J.-C., et qui illustre la version du mythe troyen selon laquelle Hélène aurait vécu la guerre de Troie exilée en Égypte.