{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0006.tlg014.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.local001","title":"Ἑλένη","titleGreek":"Ἑλένη","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Euripides","authorityName":"EURIPIDES Trag.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","editors":["Gilbert Murray"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Euripidis Fabulae","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1913","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/euripidisfabulae03euri_0/page/n13/","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Euripides. Ἑλένη. ed. Gilbert Murray. Euripidis Fabulae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg014.local001","excerpt":"Ἑλένη Νείλου μὲν αἵδε καλλιπάρθενοι ῥοαί, ὃς ἀντὶ δίας ψακάδος Αἰγύπτου πέδον λευκῆς τακείσης χιόνος ὑγραίνει γύας. Πρωτεὺς δʼ ὅτʼ ἔζη τῆσδε γῆς τύραννος ἦν, Φάρον μὲν οἰκῶν νῆσον, Αἰγύπτου δʼ ἄναξ, ὃς τῶν κατʼ οἶδμα παρθένων μίαν γαμεῖ, Ψαμάθην, ἐπειδὴ λέκτρʼ ἀφῆκεν Αἰακοῦ. τίκτει δὲ τέκνα δισσὰ τοῖσδε δώμασι, Θεοκλύμενον ἄρσενʼ ὅτι δὴ θεοὺς σέβων βίον διήνεγκʼ εὐγενῆ τε παρθένον Εἰδώ, τὸ μητρὸς ἀγλάισμʼ, ὅτʼ ἦν βρέφος· ἐπεὶ δʼ ἐς ἥβην ἦλθεν ὡραίαν γάμων, καλοῦσιν αὐτὴν Θεονόην· τὰ θεῖα γὰρ τά τʼ ὄντα καὶ μέλλοντα πάντʼ ἠπίστατο, προγόνου λαβοῦσα Νηρέως τιμὰς πάρα. ἡμῖν δὲ γῆ μὲν πατρὶς οὐκ ἀνώνυμος Σπάρτη, πατὴρ δὲ Τυνδάρεως· ἔστιν δὲ δὴ λόγος τις ὡς Ζεὺς μητέρʼ ἔπτατʼ εἰς ἐμὴν Λήδαν κύκνου μορφώματʼ ὄρνιθος λαβών, ὃς δόλιον εὐνὴν ἐξέπραξʼ ὑπʼ αἰετοῦ δίωγμα φεύγων, εἰ σαφὴς οὗτος λόγος· Ἑλένη δʼ ἐκλήθην. ἃ δὲ πεπόνθαμεν κακὰ λέγοιμʼ ἄν. ἦλθον τρεῖς θεαὶ κάλλους πέρι Ἰδαῖον ἐς…","divisions":[{"label":"Episode 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-1"},{"label":"Choral 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-2"},{"label":"Episode 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-3"},{"label":"Choral 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-4"},{"label":"Episode 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-5"},{"label":"Choral 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-6"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-7"},{"label":"Choral 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-8"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/#tlg0006-tlg014-local001-9"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0006.tlg014.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006/tlg014/local001.json.gz"}}