W. Allan (ed.), Euripides: Helen

William Allan (ed.), Euripides: Helen, Cambridge/New York:  Cambridge University Press, coll. "Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics", 2008. xiii, 371 pages.

• ISBN 9780521545419
• $38.99 (pb)
  

Recension par Brian V. Lush (College of Charleston) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.03.02.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides' Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and dynamism of fifth-century Athenian tragedy more than any other surviving play. The story of an exemplary wife (not an adulteress) who went to Egypt (not to Troy), Euripides' 'new Helen' skilfully transforms and supplants earlier currents of literature and myth. The Introduction elucidates Euripides' treatment of Helen and sets the play in its wider intellectual context. It also discusses questions of genre and reception, rejecting such descriptions as 'tragicomedy' or 'romantic tragedy', and showing how later artists have responded to Euripides' unorthodox heroine and her phantom double. The Commentary's notes on language and style are intended to make Helen fully accessible to readers of Greek at all levels, while the edition as a whole is designed for use by anyone with an interest in Greek tragedy.

• Fresh interpretation of one of the most original Greek tragedies • Introduction sets the play in its wider intellectual context and discusses questions of genre and reception • Commentary provides notes on language and style which make the play accessible to readers of Greek at all levels.

Table des matières: 

Preface
List of sigla and abbreviations
Key to metrical symbols
Introduction
1 Euripides and Athens
(a) Life and works
(b) Helen in its Athenian context
2 The figure of Helen in early Greek culture
(a) Myth
(b) Cult
3 Helen on stage 
4 The ‘new' Helen
(a) Stesichorus
(b) Herodotus
(c) Euripides
5 The production
(a) Setting and staging
(b) Structure and dramatic technique
(c) Speech, song, language
6 A tragedy of ideas
(a) Knowledge and reality
(b) Family, gender, authority
(c) Greeks and Egyptians
(d) The Gods
7 Genre
8 Helen transfor med
9 The text and its transmission
HELEN
Commentary
Bibliography
Indexes

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