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Helen of Troy

Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190263539

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"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.

Helen of Troy

Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446419144

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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.

Beauty's Daughter

Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780544108776

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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

Helen of Troy [in verse.].

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Helen of Troy (Greek mythology)
ISBN : OXFORD:590580624

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Helen of Troy

Author : Margaret George
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101218792

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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.

Helen of Troy

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002456729T

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Helen of Troy

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385414389

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom

Author : Norman Austin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501720703

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Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom by Norman Austin Pdf

Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy, but remained blameless, while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy. Comparing the functions of contradictory images of Helen, Austin helps to clarify the problematic relations between beauty and honor and between ugliness and shame in ancient Greece. Austin first discusses the canonical account of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Helen as the archetype of woman without shame. He next considers different versions of Helen in the Homeric tradition. Among these, he shows how Sappho presents Helen as an icon of absolute beauty while she defends her own preference of eros over honor and her choice of woman as the object of desire. Austin then turns to three major authors who repudiated the traditional Helen of Troy: the lyric poet Stesichorus and the dramatist Euripides, who embraced the alternative myth of Helen's phantom; and the historian Herodotus, who claimed to have found in Egypt a Helen story that dispenses with both Helen and the phantom. Austin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, though none have endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition.

Helen of Troy

Author : Jack Lindsay
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:49015000753831

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The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

Author : Amanda Elyot
Publisher : Three Rivers Press (CA)
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Greeks
ISBN : 9780307338600

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The Memoirs of Helen of Troy by Amanda Elyot Pdf

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.

Embodying Beauty

Author : Malin Pereira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000524734

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Embodying Beauty by Malin Pereira Pdf

First Published in 2000. This study stands alone in pairing black and white American women writers across the twentieth century on the intertwined issues of female beauty and literary aesthetics. Other studies published during the late 1980s and early 1990s—such as Aldon Lynn Nielsen’s Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century (1988), Dana B. Nelson’s The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867 (1992), Eric J. Sundquist’s To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993), and Laura Doyle’s Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (1994)—have also engaged in the process of reading racialist discourse in white texts or in attempting to construct a dialogue between black and white texts. None, however, has been concerned with female beauty and literary aesthetics in relation to twentieth-century American women writers and race.

Helen of Troy - Influential Women in History

Author : Anon.
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473353787

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Helen of Troy - Influential Women in History by Anon. Pdf

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.

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Author : Anne Carson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811229371

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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson Pdf

Anne Carson’s new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of view Winner of the Governor General Award in Poetry Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell.

Helen of Troy

Author : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444308637

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Helen of Troy by Laurie Maguire Pdf

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. Takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great influence on Western cultural consciousness for more than three millennia Features a wide and diverse variety of literary sources, including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare Includes an analysis of a radio play by the prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and a Faust play by a contemporary Scottish playwright Explores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers apportion blame or exculpate her Considers the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth

Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest

Author : A. Lee Martinez
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316226448

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Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest by A. Lee Martinez Pdf

Witness the epic battle of the cyclops! Visit the endangered dragon preserve! Please, no slaying. Solve the mystery of The Mystery Cottage, if you dare! Buy some knick knacks from The Fates! They might come in handy later. On a road trip across an enchanted America, Helen and Troy will discover all this and more. If the curse placed upon them by an ancient god doesn't kill them or the pack of reluctant orc assassins don't catch up to them, Helen and Troy might reach the end their journey in one piece, where they might just end up destroying the world. Or at least a state or two. A minotaur girl, an all-American boy, a three-legged dog, and a classic car are on the road to adventure, where every exit leads to adventure. Whether they like it or not.