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Theatre

A fantastic online show of Euripides's take on Helen of Troy

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

10 April 2021

9:00 AM

Helen

Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard, via YouTube

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Everyone knows Helen of Troy. The feckless sex popsicle betrayed her husband, Menelaus, and ran off with the dashing Paris, which triggered the ten-year Trojan war. The Greeks were victorious but after sacking the city they went straight home again. So what was the point?

Euripides’s play Helen takes a radically different approach in this Zoom production by the Centre for Hellenic Studies at Harvard.

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