Helen (play)

Helen
Helen of Troy by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1863)
Written byEuripides
ChorusGreek Slave Women
CharactersHelen
Teucer
Menelaus
Proteus
First Messenger
Second Messenger
Theonoe
King Theoclymenus
Servant
Castor
MutePolydeuces
Date premiered412 BC
Place premieredAthens
Original languageAncient Greek
GenreTragedy
SettingPalace of Theoclymenus in Egypt

Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē) 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, which is believed to have been performed around the same time period.[1]

  1. ^ Wright, M. (2005). Euripides' Escape-Tragedies: A Study of Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Oxford University Press. pp. 43–51. ISBN 978-0-19-927451-2.