Work

Ἑλένη

Helen

Author

Language

Classical Attic Greek

Year

412 BCE

Country

Classical Athens

Genre

Drama / Theatre / Plays

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, which is believed to have been performed around the same time period.

Translations

The Bacchae and Other Plays (Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen)

The Bacchae and Other Plays (Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen)

tr. John Davie · Penguin · United Kingdom · 1972

Helen; Phoenician Women; Orestes

Helen; Phoenician Women; Orestes

tr. David Kovacs · Harvard University Press · United States · 2002

Heracles and Other Plays: (Iphigenia among the Taurians, Helen, Ion, Cyclops)

Heracles and Other Plays: (Iphigenia among the Taurians, Helen, Ion, Cyclops)

tr. John Davie · Penguin · United Kingdom · 2002

Original Language Editions

Helen; Phoenician Women; Orestes

Helen; Phoenician Women; Orestes

Dual-language editionHarvard University Press · United States · 2002