Helen of Troy
The Ancients
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Is She Drugs Him Every Night So That He Doesn't Cry and Annoy Hi?
When you think of the character of helen, you your mind can't help but for someone like me. She is not just a beautiful woman, but she is incredibly scary in this version. Euripides has three different ones and they're all brilliant. The one that we have in trojan women - it's one of the most impressive pieces of rhetoric that euripides writes. Is just herendus is one awful tragedy after another. It's a really, really difficult, upsetting play to watch. Wonderful, but hard.
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