Helen
Helen herself never went to Troy, a phantom did, and the real woman waited faithfully in Egypt, a premise Euripides uses to strip the Trojan War of its supposed cause and expose war as fought over an illusion.
Helen herself never went to Troy, a phantom did, and the real woman waited faithfully in Egypt, a premise Euripides uses to strip the Trojan War of its supposed cause and expose war as fought over an illusion.
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