Helen of Troy
Helen
of Troy website
Helen:
The Judgement of Paris and the Abduction (excellent images!)
Helen:
Greek Mythology Link
Scapegoat or Siren?
Victim or Seductress?
Ancient Versions
Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
Helen and Priam on the walls in Iliad 3
Helen and Paris after the battle in Iliad 3
Helen and Menelaus in Sparta in Odyssey 3-4
Sappho’s
Poem 16
Steisichorus’
Palinode
Euripides’ Trojan Women
Euripides’ Helen
Ovid's Heroides
Modern Adaptations and Discussions
Austin’s
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom
Yeats’
Leda (1928)
Holstad's
Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan': Psycho-Sexual Therapy in Action
Sara
Teasdale's "Helen of Troy" (1911)
H.D.’s Helen
essay
by Susan Stanford Friedman
Ellen
McLaughlin's Helen
Review by Diana Wright:
an intelligent, stylish play, Helen, that takes off from Euripides.
It begins as a comedy & becomes progressively more wrenching. Helen
has spent the 17 years in an Egyptian hotel, channel-surfing. There is a
maid who tells her stories -- & who does a marvellous blending of
Helen-in-Egypt with Sleeping Beauty. Io, with some cow appurtenances,
makes an appearance. Athena drops in & discusses how tiresome the
war was. Menelaus finally arrived, shell-shocked. He is given
the lines about all this suffering for a phantom & Troy is seen as
Gallipoli. The language is mostly terrific, & saturated in Homer
& Aeschylus. Much of the play has to do with the Protean quality of
time & stories. Helen is quite beautiful.
Helen = Donna Murphy
Maid - Marian Seldes
Io = Johanna Day
Athena = Phylicia Rashad [black Athena? -- I've
seen a black Athena before, in Peter Sellars' Ajax, though there
s/he was bald & in drag].
Menelaus = Denis O'Hare
The Trial of Helen
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