Euripides

"Helena" is een tragedie van de Griekse tragediedichter Euripides. Het stuk werd opgevoerd in 412 v.Chr.

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 …