The Rape of Helen by Coluthus (Illustrated) by Delphi Classics, Coluthus of Lycopolis

The Rape of Helen by Coluthus (Illustrated)

Delphi Classics, Coluthus of Lycopolis with A. W. Mair (Translator)

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The epic poet Coluthus of Lycopolis flourished in the early sixth century AD and his sole extant work is ‘The Rape of Helen’. A poem of 392 hexameters, it was almost lost, save for its discovery by Cardinal Bessarion in the fifteenth century. It c...

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