Commentary
The similarity among Helen (412 b.C.E.) and
Iphigenia the various Taurians (ca. 414 b.C.E.) is
pretty close. A Greek female vitally linked
with the Trojan War, stranded in a barbar-
ian land and below the manage of a barbarian
tyrant who shows a propensity for killing
Greeks, meets, in a dramatic popularity scene,
her liked kinsman or husband, and subse-
quently escapes with him via fooling the tyrant
with a sham ceremony. Like Iphigenia, Helen
is closely related to a pacesetter of the expe-
dition (in her case, Menelaus), and due to
a mysterious divine intervention, her authentic fate
and region are unknown. Iphigenia is sup-
posed to have died in the sacrifice, however genuinely
resides among the Taurians, at the same time as Helen is
imagined to w
