A revision of the myth of Helen is tried in four different moments, three of them pertaining to the classical Greek literature and one of then to the Modern one: Homeric epic, the Encomium by Gorgias of Leontinus, the Euripide an tragedy and the homonymous poem by Giorgos Seferis. In the four texts the myth serves as a modulator of four different messages, in the four is adapted to different discursive forms and works in different historical circumstances and contexts.
Keywords:
Helen, Iliad, Georgias of Leontinus, Euripides, Seferis, Myth, Classical Tradition
Author Biography
Mariano Nava Contreras, Universidad de Los Andes
Licenciado en Letras Mención Lenguas y literaturas clásicas Universidad de los Andes. Doctor en Filología Clásica Universidad de Granada.
Nava Contreras, M. (2018). ".For a Helen". Philosophy, rhetoric and history in the myth of the most beautiful woman. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (37), pp. 197–214. Retrieved from https://elhuron.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/51559
