"Helen" by Euripides at the Ancient Theatre of Argos

Sunday, July 21, 2013 "Helen" by Euripides at the Ancient Theatre of Argos. The play starts at 9.00 pm The conflicts of the gods torture the people, wars are made for ghosts. After the debacle of Syracuse, Euripides writes in 412 BC a work in the limits of tragicomedy. Seventeen years after the start of the Trojan War, Helen meets again Menelaus and overturns the myth of the unfaithful woman. "Helen" is a characteristic example of tragicomedy, because here the purely dramatic element is undermined by the comic. The very premise of the play, moreover, puts the iconic face of Helen of Troy not in Troy, but in Egypt. In Troy, according to this version of Euripides, went her aethereal self while Helen remained immaculate and innocent waiting for her husband in Egypt, staying faithful to her marriage. Starring : Pemi Zouni, Nikos Arvanitis, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Antonis Karystinos, Niki Pallikaraki, Giannis Kotsarinis, Eugenia Maragkou, Eve Kartsakla, George Tsapogas.