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Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature --- Trojan War --- Mythology, Greek --- Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Trojan War.

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Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature --- Iphigenia (Greek mythology) in literature --- Orestes (Greek mythology) in literature --- Tragedy --- Euripides --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"This is a study of three late plays of Euripides: Helen, Andromeda and Iphigenia among the Taurians. This book examines central themes such as myth, geography, cultural identity, philosophy, religion, and genre. Matthew Wright presents a new interpretation of the plays, arguing that they are a thematically connected trilogy"--Provided by publisher.

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"Using Euripides' play, Helen, as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic structure to show how assumptions held by the ancient audience shaped meaning in Helen and to demonstrate how Euripides' play draws extensively on the satyr play Proteus, which was part of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Structure is presented not as a theoretical abstraction, but as a crucial component of the experience of performance, working with music, the chorus and the other plays in the tetralogy. Euripides' Andromeda in particular is shown to have resonances with Helen not previously described. Arguing that the role of the director is key, Marshall shows that the choices that a director can make about role doubling, gestures, blocking, humour, and masks play a crucial part in forming the meaning of Helen"--

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La figure d'Hélène a jusqu'ici très rarement attiré l'attention de ceux qui étudient les mythes littéraires. Il faut avouer que le corpus paraît assez mince et surtout fâcheusement dispersé. Hélène semble vouée dès l'abord au rôle de personnage épisodique ; sa légende ressemble plus à un agrégat fortuit d'anecdotes qu'à un récit bien lié. Aussi l'interprétation en est-elle simple, et même pauvre ; elle se réduit presque à la question, toute judiciaire, de savoir si l'héroïne est ou non coupable. Mais si l'on ose remonter jusqu'à Homère et si l'on ne néglige aucune des grandes littératures de l'Europe, on voit se dessiner un assez étrange système d'analogies ; certains auteurs médiévaux éclairent malgré eux un texte homérique qu'ils ignorent. On voit à l'oeuvre chez eux un mode de pensée qui semble échapper aux catégories de ce que nous appelons la raison ; comme Homère, ils ne posent pas la question de la responsabilité d'Hélène. Il semble que se mène, au moins depuis Euripide - depuis que la tragédie grecque a transformé les vieilles légendes en objets de réflexion abstraite et en thèmes de débats judiciaires -, une lutte entre deux formes de pensée, l'une qui met en avant une morale de type universel et une rhétorique supposée servante de la logique, et l'autre qui repose en dernière analyse sur la fascination par la figure singulière. Mythe littéraire aberrant, l'histoire dispersée d'Hélène pourrait être beaucoup plus proche du mythe comme mode de pensée que tel autre récit traditionnel plus docile à l'allégorie.

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