https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1449 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1478 The paper aims to investigate Helen’s apparition in Goethe’s Faust II, through Walter Benjamin’s Goethes Wahlverwandtschafen, essay written between 1921 and 1923, in which Benjamin reads Goethe’s novel Die Wahlverwandtschafen. In his essay, Benjamin focuses on Ottilie, whose beauty, in Goethe’s novel, represents an innovation in front of epic and mythological narration. Comparing Ottilie “apparent beauty” to that of Helen in Faust, an incredible closeness between Goethe and Euripides is revealed, insofar as apparent beauty is a sort of mythological fundamental of all wars. dim., 26 janv. 2025 20:24:21 +0100 dim., 26 janv. 2025 20:24:21 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1478 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1459 The Teichoscopia, an episode from Book III of the Iliad, is the first time Helen’s voice is heard in the poem. Homer gives the character the ability to recount the deeds of the heroes and their profiles: in this way, Helen’s voice aligns with a specific perspective, one that also blends with Homer’s point of view. In The Fourth Dimension, Ghiannis Ritsos revisits this episode within his mythopoesis, but he alters its meaning. Ritsos transforms the Teichoscopia, in Helen’s final day of life, into a quest for freedom that the now elderly woman ultimately achieves through death. In my paper, I analyze the reinterpretation and the explicit differences between Homer and Ritsos in the poetic construction of the Teichoscopia. dim., 26 janv. 2025 17:05:12 +0100 dim., 26 janv. 2025 17:05:12 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1459 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1448 The contribution considers the beauty of Helen under the category of the sublime. This perspective allows us to consider that there is an impossible foundation to the Trojan War, a void that reveals that perhaps even in the Iliad a reason for war is missing. Euripides, in the tragedy Helen, radicalizes this trait, taking Helen to the realm of the dead, for a radical destruction-regeneration of her image. dim., 26 janv. 2025 15:52:29 +0100 dim., 26 janv. 2025 16:08:58 +0100 https://www.peren-revues.fr/revue-k/1448