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" ... Fast forward a decade from the publication of the Inquiries to 412 B.C. It’s winter time, and the Athenians are reeling from their failed Sicilian expedition. Sparta is now in ascendance. But this is a minor point, really; for the might of classical Athens, now diminished, will never return. It is against this backdrop that Euripides (480 – 406 B.C.), one of the three great Greek tragedians, presented his Helen for the Dionysia. Let us attempt, begging some license, to imagine the reaction of the average Athenian theater-goer when Euripides revealed his plot-line followed, not Homer, but, in rough outline, the Herodotean variant. Some in the audience would have recognized the precedent for the alternative history (Hesiod and Stesichorus famously had versions denying Helen’s presence in Troy) and settled in for a retelling; some, perhaps, would have taken offense at the gall of this innovating dramaturge and shuffled off in search of unmixed wine in the agora; but every Athenian with a properly tuned soul would have reflected on the meaning of Euripides’ Helen in light of the present, rather unfortunate, circumstances. (I would trade all of Aeschylus to have witnessed the crowd's reaction.) So how does Helen hold up today? And why should it be included in the Western canon? ... "