Abstract
The current paper’s aim is to offer a metatheatral reading of Euripides’ Helen. This approach should allow us to consider the way in which Euripides himself understands his role of creator by means of one of his characters, i.e. Helen of Troy, who is depicted as the alter ego of the tragic poet. Besides, this reading should make possible to grasp some relevant remarks on the rhetoric nature of the tragic theatre and the key relevance of the lógos in the drama or tragic action.
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