Overview
The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that
Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt,
and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line
fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what
survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other
Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt
is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of
the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other
figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian
hermeticism.
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