Table of Contents
Preface ix
List of sigla and abbreviations xi
Key to metrical symbols xiii
Introduction 1
Euripides and Athens 1
Life and works 1
Helen in its Athenian context 4
The figure of Helen in early Greek culture 10
Myth 10
Cult 14
Helen on stage 16
The 'new' Helen 18
Stesichorus 18
Herodotus 22
Euripides 24
The production 29
Setting and staging 29
Structure and dramatic technique 34
Speech, song, language 38
A tragedy of ideas 46
Knowledge and reality 47
Family, gender, authority 49
Greeks and Egyptians 55
The Gods 61
Genre 66
Helen transformed 72
The text and its transmission 82
Helen 91
Commentary 142
Bibliography 347
Indexes 365
