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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides

“I did not go to Troy; that was a phantom.”

Euripides (spoken by Helen)

Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Helen, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)

Portrait of Euripides

Helen tells the astonished Menelaus that the woman he fought for at Troy was a phantom made by Hera.

Citation: "I did not go to Troy; that was a phantom." — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Helen, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q5)

Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.

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