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Author : Anon.
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473353787
This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Helen of Troy, the daughter of Zeus in Greek mythology whose abduction by Paris resulted in the Trojan War.
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446419144
As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for both the Trojan War and enduring enmity between East and West. For millennia she has been viewed as an exquisite agent of extermination. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes who ruled over one of the most fertile areas of the Mycenaean world; Helen of Sparta, the focus of a cult which conflated Helen the heroine with a pre-Greek fertility goddess; the home-wrecker of the Iliad; the bitch-whore of Greek tragedy; the pin-up of Romantic artists. Focusing on the 'real' Helen - a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age - acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes reconstructs the context of life for this elusive pre-historic princess and places her alongside the heroes and heroines of myth and history. Through the eyes of a young Mycenaean woman, Hughes examines the physical, historical and cultural traces that Helen has left on locations in Greece, North Africa and Asia Minor. Vivid and compelling, this remarkable book brilliantly unpacks the facts and myths surrounding one of the most enigmatic and notorious figures of all time.
Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190263539
"The story of Helen of Troy has its origins in ancient Greek epic and didactic poetry, more than 2500 years ago, but it remains one of the world's most galvanizing myths about the destructive power of beauty. Much like the ancient Greeks, our own relationship to female beauty is deeply ambivalent, fraught with both desire and danger. We worship and fear it, advertise it everywhere yet try desperately to control and contain it. No other myth evocatively captures this ambivalence better than that of Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda, and wife of the Spartan leader Menelaus. Her elopement with (or abduction by) the Trojan prince Paris "launched a thousand ships" and started the most famous war in antiquity. For ancient Greek poets and philosophers, the Helen myth provided a means to explore the paradoxical nature of female beauty, which is at once an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction, yet also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. Many ancients simply vilified Helen for her role in the Trojan War but there is much more to her story than that: the kidnapping of Helen by the Athenian hero Theseus, her sibling-like relationship with Achilles, the religious cult in which she was worshipped by maidens and newlyweds, and the variant tradition which claims she never went to Troy at all but was whisked away to Egypt and replaced with a phantom. In this book, author Ruby Blondell offers a fresh look at the paradoxes and ambiguities that Helen embodies. Moving from Homer and Hesiod to Sappho, Aeschylus, Euripides, and others, Helen of Troy shows how this powerful myth was continuously reshaped and revisited by the Greeks. By focusing on this key figure from ancient Greece, the book both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a fascinating perspective on our own." - Besedilo s knjižnega zavihka.
Author : Ann Poeschel
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502651358
Helen of Troy is famously known in ancient mythology as the face that launched a thousand ships, but this heroine was more than a pretty face and a catalyst for war. This book explores the famous story of Helen, her involvement in the Trojan War, and the hand she played in starting one of the most epic battles of Grecian legend. With simple text, engaging images, and relevant historical context, this book provides an understanding of the impact the myth of Helen had in ancient Grecian society and her continued influence on the world today.
Author : Margaret George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101218792
Acclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face "launched a thousand ships" in this New York Times bestseller. The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy. Laden with doom, yet surprising in its moments of innocence and beauty, Helen of Troy is an exquisite page-turner with a cast of irresistible, legendary characters—Odysseus, Hector, Achilles, Menelaus, Priam, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, as well as Helen and Paris themselves. With a wealth of material that reproduces the Age of Bronze in all its glory, it brings to life a war that we have all learned about but never before experienced.
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400076000
For 3,000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.In her search for the identity behind this mythic figure, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes uses Homer’s account of Helen’s life to frame her own investigation. Tracing the cultural impact that Helen has had on both the ancient world and Western civilization, Hughes explores Helen’s role and representations in literature and in art throughout the ages. This is a masterly work of historical inquiry about one of the world’s most famous women.
Author : Amanda Elyot
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Greeks
ISBN : 9780307338600
As despised as she was desired, Helen of Troy is one of history's most notorious women. In this groundbreaking and richly dramatic novel, the familiar story of passion and violence is told from a new perspective: that of Helen herself.
Author : John Erskine
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547101758
"The Private Life of Helen of Troy" is a novel by John Erskine, an American educator, author, pianist, and composer and the first president of the Juilliard School of Music. The novel was adapted from the Greek legend of Helen of Troy and followed the famous woman's life after the burning of Troy.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Andromache (Legendary character)
ISBN : IOWA:31858031442100
Author : Euripides
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547356806
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Trojan women of Euripides" by Euripides. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780521518604
This book interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema.
Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780544108776
The bestselling author of the Young Royals books “delves into Greek mythology with a retelling of the Trojan War from the point of view of Hermione” (Booklist). What is it like to be the daughter of the most beautiful woman in the world? Hermione knows . . . her mother is Helen of Troy, the famed beauty of Greek myth. Helen is not only beautiful but also impulsive, and when she falls in love with charming Prince Paris, she runs off with him to Troy, abandoning her distraught daughter. Determined to reclaim their enchanting queen, the Greek army sails for Troy. Hermione stows away in one of the thousand ships in the fleet and witnesses the start of the legendary Trojan War. In the rough Greek encampment outside the walls of Troy, Hermione’s life is far from that of a pampered princess. Meanwhile, her mother basks in luxury in the royal palace inside the city. Hermione desperately wishes for the gods and goddesses to intervene and end the brutal war—and to bring her love. Will she end up with the handsome archer Orestes, or the formidable Pyrrhus, leader of a tribe of fierce warriors? And will she ever forgive her mother for bringing such chaos to her life and the lives of so many others? “Beauty’s Daughter burrows into the recent interest in Greek mythology and builds a fictional account of the young woman’s quest to find her lost love.” —VOYA “This title would make a great pairing for students studying Greek mythology or reading the Iliad or Odyssey and will appeal particularly to students interested in ancient history.” —School Library Journal
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Helen of Troy (Greek mythology)
ISBN : CHI:24340492
Author : Jack Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015031589685
Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385546706
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.