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Author : Colluthus (of Lycopolis.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)
Download or read book The Rape of Helen: Or the Origin of the Trojan War written by Colluthus (of Lycopolis.) and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Barry B. Powell
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The War at Troy written by Barry B. Powell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WAR AT TROY: A TRUE HISTORY. Tells the story of the entire saga based on ancient sources with a humorous tongue-in-cheek tone. Fascinating and a great source for what the ancients actually said about the course of this most famous war.
Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743264428
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Trojan War written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on archaeological research, an expert account of the famous historical battle confirms many details recounted in Homer's epic account, from Troy's alliance with the Hittite Empire to the significant fire at the end of the twelfth century and facts
Author : Peter W. Katsirubas
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665539577
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Paris and Helen of Troy written by Peter W. Katsirubas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary novel explores the passions and motivations of the protagonists and the events of the Trojan War without the machinations of imaginary gods driving their behaviors and actions. Who were the lovers whose coupling ignited the clash of civilizations immortalized by Homer’s Iliad? What was their reality and that of the warriors and the women who were engulfed by the bloody conflict? According to myth, the war was precipitated by Aphrodite who promised Paris the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen the queen of Sparta, if he declared her winner of a beauty contest of goddesses. That fantasy did not occur nor were the actors’ puppets of invisible deities. So who sent Prince Paris across the ship-devouring Aegean Sea to Sparta and why? Did he abduct and rape Helen while King Menelaus was away or did she abscond with Paris to Troy? Did King Agamemnon of Mycenae lead an armada of unified Greeks to liberate his sister-in-law out of filial concern or for the ulterior reasons his wife Clytemnestra suspected? Why did the war that saw the lethal combats of heroes such as Achilles and Ajax and Odysseus and Hector drag on for ten years when Priam the king of Troy could have ended it by returning Helen? What roles did the Trojan women such as Hecuba and Andromache and Briseus and the self-proclaimed prophetess Cassandra play during the unending siege? What is the truth behind the conflagration of Troy?
Author : Anon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473353785
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy - Influential Women in History written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the Helen of Troy addition of the “Influential Women in History” series. An important figure in Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and Leda. She was the most beautiful woman in the entire world, and her abduction by Paris marked the beginning of the Trojan war. This fascinating and detailed book explores the character and history of Helen of Troy, and is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in Greek mythology. This book has been selected for modern republication due to its educational and historical value, and would make for a fantastic addition to any bookshelf. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on Greek mythology.
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 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.
Author : Colluthus (of Lycopolis.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Rape of Helen written by Colluthus (of Lycopolis.) and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 038554670X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Women of Troy written by Pat Barker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 184413329X
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Bettany Hughes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on 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 an enduring enmity between East and West. For millennia she has been viewed as ane xquisite agent of extermination. But who was she?
Author : Carolyn Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544108779
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Beauty's Daughter written by Carolyn Meyer and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Norman Austin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720708
Total Pages : 245 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 245 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.
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307485889
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Bettany Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 512 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 : Andrew Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Helen of Troy written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter W. Katsirubas
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665539577
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Paris and Helen of Troy written by Peter W. Katsirubas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary novel explores the passions and motivations of the protagonists and the events of the Trojan War without the machinations of imaginary gods driving their behaviors and actions. Who were the lovers whose coupling ignited the clash of civilizations immortalized by Homer’s Iliad? What was their reality and that of the warriors and the women who were engulfed by the bloody conflict? According to myth, the war was precipitated by Aphrodite who promised Paris the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen the queen of Sparta, if he declared her winner of a beauty contest of goddesses. That fantasy did not occur nor were the actors’ puppets of invisible deities. So who sent Prince Paris across the ship-devouring Aegean Sea to Sparta and why? Did he abduct and rape Helen while King Menelaus was away or did she abscond with Paris to Troy? Did King Agamemnon of Mycenae lead an armada of unified Greeks to liberate his sister-in-law out of filial concern or for the ulterior reasons his wife Clytemnestra suspected? Why did the war that saw the lethal combats of heroes such as Achilles and Ajax and Odysseus and Hector drag on for ten years when Priam the king of Troy could have ended it by returning Helen? What roles did the Trojan women such as Hecuba and Andromache and Briseus and the self-proclaimed prophetess Cassandra play during the unending siege? What is the truth behind the conflagration of Troy?
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 : James N. Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (138 download)
Download or read book The Trojan War written by James N. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
