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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190263539
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Ruby Blondell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444308631
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Laurie Maguire and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen of Troy is a poetic work by Andrew Lang. It depicts the seductive Helen and recounts this classic story of love and betrayal from her point of view.
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446419142
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Bettany Hughes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Margaret George
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218797
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Margaret George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ruby Blondell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691229643
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy in Hollywood written by Ruby Blondell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity. Paying careful attention to how the image of Helen is embodied by the actors who have portrayed her, Ruby Blondell provides close readings of such works as Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy and the Star Trek episode “Elaan of Troyius,” going beyond contextualization to lead the reader through a fundamental rethinking of how we understand and interpret the classic tradition. A luminous work of scholarship by one of today’s leading classicists, Helen of Troy in Hollywood highlights the importance of ancient myths not as timeless stories frozen in the past but as lenses through which to view our own artistic, cultural, and political moment in a new light. This incisive book demonstrates how, whether as the hero of these screen adaptations or as a peripheral character in male-dominated adventures, the mythic Helen has become symbolic of the perceived dangers of superhuman beauty and transgressive erotic agency.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376246452
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Norman Austin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720708
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom written by Norman Austin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1400076005
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Bettany Hughes and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Erskine
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504064933
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of Helen of Troy written by John Erskine and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A humorous, wise, and beautiful book” about Helen’s life following the notorious scandal (The New York Times). Picking up after the Trojan War, this novel follows the reunion of Helen of Troy with Menelaus and their return to Sparta together. A bestseller in its day and a clever take on the ancient myth from the female point of view, it explores Helen’s feelings about the two men in her life and her reflections on marriage in general, the power and perils of beauty, and the strains on a relationship after a dramatic disruption. Originally published in the wake of the women’s suffrage movement, The Private Life of Helen of Troy is a witty, inventive novel casting one of the great characters of Western literature in the starring role.
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lang Andrew
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545244395
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Lang Andrew and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having the face that launched a thousand ships. Helen or Helene is probably derived from the Greek word meaning "torch" or "corposant" or might be related to "selene" meaning "moon".
Author : Constance Cary Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The story of Helen Troy, by the author of 'Golden rod'. written by Constance Cary Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533009111
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Andrew Lang Download in EPUB format, also available for Kindle or in PDF In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. Helen was described as having the face that launched a thousand ships. Helen or Helene is probably derived from the Greek word meaning "torch" or "corposant" or might be related to "selene" meaning "moon."
Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
