Euripides’ “new Helen,” as Aristophanes (Thesm. 850) identifies her, occupies a tenuous position between the aggressive imposition of power (divine, political, and erotic) and resistance. In Hera’s replication of Helen, the goddess would nullify Helen’s identity in order to remove the stakes of a military conflict predicated upon Helen’s singular beauty. Although Helen’s eponymous heroine seeks to differentiate herself from her divinely fabricated clone, she nevertheless re-enacts a pattern of abduction, duplicity, and martial violence which has always haunted her story. Paradoxically, her efforts at resistance, both to human coercion and to the threat posed by her double, come to simulate the irony, deception, and seduction that characterize the eidôlon (and, by extension, the prior tradition around Helen that the eidôlon embodies).1 Accordingly, as Jean Baudrillard suggests in the quotation that introduces this essay, Helen’s universal mythic embodiment of beauty, seductive allure, and disarming cleverness should give us pause in assigning authenticity or priority to any of her instantiations, since each Helen is always “the simultaneous equivalent of all the others.” The tension between Helen’s struggle to assert her unique personhood and the weight of a mythic tradition that places her at the center of war, retribution, and abduction emerges powerfully in Euripides’ Helen. At stake, then, are the mythic explanation and justification of a primeval war fought repeatedly

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欧里庇得斯《海伦》中的模拟、暴力和抵抗

欧里庇得斯的“新海伦”，正如阿里斯托芬 (Thesm. 850) 所描述的那样，在强加强权（神圣的、政治的和色情的）和抵抗之间占据了一个脆弱的位置。在赫拉对海伦的复制中，女神将取消海伦的身份，以消除以海伦奇异美貌为基础的军事冲突的风险。尽管海伦的同名女主人公试图将自己与她神造的克隆人区分开来，但她仍然重现了一种一直困扰着她的故事的绑架、口是心非和军事暴力的模式。矛盾的是，她努力抵抗人类的胁迫和她的替身所构成的威胁，模拟了 eidôlon 的特征（以及 eidôlon 所体现的围绕海伦的先前传统）的讽刺、欺骗和诱惑.1 因此，正如让·鲍德里亚在介绍这篇文章的引文中所暗示的那样，海伦对美、诱人的诱惑和令人放松的聪明的普遍神话化身应该让我们停下来为她的任何实例分配真实性或优先级，因为每个海伦总是“同时相当于所有其他人。” 在欧里庇得斯的《海伦》中，海伦努力维护自己独特的人格与神话传统之间的紧张关系，使她处于战争、报复和绑架的中心。那么，对一场反复进行的原始战争的神话解释和正当性处于危险之中。解除聪明才智应该让我们停下来为她的任何实例分配真实性或优先级，因为每个海伦总是“同时与所有其他人等同”。在欧里庇得斯的《海伦》中，海伦努力维护自己独特的人格与神话传统之间的紧张关系，使她处于战争、报复和绑架的中心。那么，对一场反复进行的原始战争的神话解释和正当性处于危险之中。解除聪明才智应该让我们停下来为她的任何实例分配真实性或优先级，因为每个海伦总是“同时与所有其他人等同”。在欧里庇得斯的《海伦》中，海伦竭力维护自己独特的人格与神话传统之间的紧张关系，使她处于战争、报复和绑架的中心。那么，对一场反复进行的原始战争的神话解释和正当性处于危险之中。