Helen

Among the legends of ancient Greece, there is perhaps no story more compelling than that of Helen. Her surpassing beauty was said to have launched the Greek fleet of a thousand ships to Troy. No woman was so adored and so hated. She was seen as both prize and scapegoat, the promise of bliss and the assurance of doom.

About the author

About the Translators:
James Michie is translator of The Odes of Horace and The Centennial Hymn. Colin Leach is a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford University.

Summary

In this sensitive new translation by James Michie and Colin Leach, Euripides' fragile structure of subtlety, in both timing and tone, is beautifully preserved.

Product details

• Authors: Euripides
• Assisted by: Colin Leach (Translation), Colin (Fellow Leach (Translation), James Michie (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1992
• EAN: 9780195077100
• ISBN: 978-0-19-507710-0
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations; Greek Tragedy in New Translations
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature