TY - CONF ID - 10442/13921 A1 - Zournatzi, A. Y1 - 1993/// T1 - Evagoras I and Athens in the Helen of Euripides? SN - 0996-5904 PB - Gabalda SP - 103–118EP - UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10442/13921 N2 - This paper argues that the ‘Helen’ of Euripides portrays, through a sustained use of metaphors, a perspective of an Athenian collaboration with Cypriot Salamis in the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily (413 BC). This double meaning of the ‘Helen’ may be inferred from extensive parallels between the deplorable situation of Menelaus, as depicted in the play, and Thucydides’ description of the climate that prevailed in Athens following her military failure in Sicily; the adventures of Helen and Teucer, as portrayed by Euripides, and these of Cypriot Salamis and her then current ruler Evagoras, as described by Isocrates; and Euripides’ casting of the mythological character of Theonoe and the protocol of the Achaemenids, who controlled Cyprus that time. It is also argued that one of Euripides’ references to Helen as a metaphor for Salamis is consistent with the definition of the manner of ‘metapherein’ that Aristotle calls ‘analogon’. ER -