Autore: Edmunds, Lowell
Titolo: Envoi
Periodico: Estetica
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 11 - Pagina finale: 15

Most of the articles surveyed in this Envoi discuss Helen in the fifth (tragedy, Gorgias) and fourth (Isocrates) centuries. Homer’s and Sappho’s Helens are also discussed and, in Roman literature, the Helens of Virgil, Ovid and Seneca. Old themes of scholarship on Helen, such as her beauty and her guilt, are newly considered. She is a somewhat less familiar figure Isocrates, worshipped with Menelaus in a Spartan cult. She becomes a deceitful character in Seneca’s Troades, in which she prepares the unknowing Polyxena for sacrifice to the ghost of Achilles, who has made it the condition of the Greeks’ sailing from Troy.




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