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Giampiero Scafoglio, « I due volti di Elena. Sopravvivenze della tradizione orale nell’Odissea », GAIA. Revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grèce ancienne, ID : 10.3406/gaia.2015.1647
The Two Faces of Helen. Survival of Oral Tradition in the Odyssey. The speeches of Helen and Menelaus to Telemachus at Odyssey, IV, outline two different versions about the behavior of Helen towards Achaeans and Trojans at the time of the conquest of Troy : both versions go back to the pre-homeric oral tradition, which was also attested in the poems of the epic cycle (as we learn from the summaries of Proclus). Therefore, the Homeric episode can be interpreted as a ‘ survey’ or a ‘ review’ of the preexisting variants of the legend.