{"title":"The Parodos of Euripides' Helen (164–90)","authors":"C. Willink","doi":"10.1163/EJ.9789004182813.I-862.31","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The friendly expatriate ladies of the chorus in Helen enter having heard loud lamentation issuing from the palace. The chapter shows that Parodos has an incorrect, though not irrational, colometry which features several iambic metra beginning with long anceps. The blasphemous paradox of using παιάν in reference to a dirge is quite frequent in tragedy, but it was still a paradox of the kind that Euripides habitually developed with a negating adjective. The assumption of a (distressed) νύμφη is more immediately justified by the following simile like a fugitive Naiad (nymph) . Euripides is wittily playing on different senses of νύμφη in a highly sophisticated comparison. Keywords: Euripides; extant tragedy; Helen ; Parodos","PeriodicalId":47185,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"89 1","pages":"169-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"1990-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"17","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL QUARTERLY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/EJ.9789004182813.I-862.31","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The friendly expatriate ladies of the chorus in Helen enter having heard loud lamentation issuing from the palace. The chapter shows that Parodos has an incorrect, though not irrational, colometry which features several iambic metra beginning with long anceps. The blasphemous paradox of using παιάν in reference to a dirge is quite frequent in tragedy, but it was still a paradox of the kind that Euripides habitually developed with a negating adjective. The assumption of a (distressed) νύμφη is more immediately justified by the following simile like a fugitive Naiad (nymph) . Euripides is wittily playing on different senses of νύμφη in a highly sophisticated comparison. Keywords: Euripides; extant tragedy; Helen ; Parodos
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The Classical Quarterly has a reputation for publishing the highest quality classical scholarship for nearly 100 years. It publishes research papers and short notes in the fields of language, literature, history and philosophy. Two substantial issues (around 300 pages each) of The Classical Quarterly appear each year, in May and December. Given the quality and depth of the articles published in The Classical Quarterly, any serious classical library needs to have a copy on its shelves. Published for the The Classical Association
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