La voix d’Hélène dans l’épopée homérique : fiction et tradition

Homeric scholarship usually considers Helen as an allegorical substitute for the poet or the Muses. But the homeric Helen is a fictional character, staged in the narrative by the poet who considers her as a central character for his epics. Being simultaneously Menelaus’wife and Paris’wife, she is an...

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Main Author: Sylvie Perceau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques 2012-05-01
Series:Cahiers Mondes Anciens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/829