The play Helen tells a variant of this story, beginning under the premise that rather than running off to Troy with Paris, Helen was actually whisked away to Egypt by the gods. The Archaic lyric poet Stesichorus had made the same assertion in his "Palinode" (itself a correction to an earlier poem corroborating the traditional characterization that made Helen out to be a woman of ill repute). Within the play's framework, Euripides starkly condemns war, deeming it to be the root of all evil.Ībout thirty years before this play, Herodotus argued in his Histories that Helen had never in fact arrived at Troy, but was in Egypt during the entire Trojan War. Concurrently, the sophists – a movement of teachers who incorporated philosophy and rhetoric into their occupation – were beginning to question traditional values and religious beliefs. Helen was written soon after the Sicilian Expedition, in which Athens had suffered a massive defeat. The play has much in common with Iphigenia in Tauris, which is believed to have been performed around the same time period. Helen ( Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, Helenē) is a drama by Euripides about Helen, first produced in 412 BC for the Dionysia in a trilogy that also contained Euripides' lost Andromeda. Helen of Troy by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1863)
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