The Taking Of Helen
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The Taking Of Helen
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Author : John Masefield
language : en
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Release Date : 1924
The Taking Of Helen written by John Masefield and has been published by New York : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with Helen of Troy categories.
Beylagen Zu Dem Am 30 Junii 1712 Dictirten Kayserlichen Commissions Decret Die Schweitzerische Unruhe Betreffend
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language : en
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Release Date : 1712
Beylagen Zu Dem Am 30 Junii 1712 Dictirten Kayserlichen Commissions Decret Die Schweitzerische Unruhe Betreffend written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1712 with categories.
Helen Of Troy
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Author : Margaret George
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2006-08-03
Helen Of Troy written by Margaret George and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-03 with Fiction categories.
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
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Author : Ruby Blondell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-30
Helen Of Troy written by Ruby Blondell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-30 with History categories.
"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.
Stealing Helen
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Author : Lowell Edmunds
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-28
Stealing Helen written by Lowell Edmunds and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-28 with History categories.
It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story’s best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth—the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became known. Investigating Helen’s status in ancient Greek sources, Edmunds argues that if Helen was just one trope of the abducted wife, the quest for Helen’s origin in Spartan cult can be abandoned, as can the quest for an Indo-European goddess who grew into the Helen myth. He explains that Helen was not a divine essence but a narrative figure that could replicate itself as needed, at various times or places in ancient Greece. Edmunds recovers some of these narrative Helens, such as those of the Pythagoreans and of Simon Magus, which then inspired the Helens of the Faust legend and Goethe. Stealing Helen offers a detailed critique of prevailing views behind the "real" Helen and presents an eye-opening exploration of the many sources for this international mythical and literary icon.
Helen Of Troy
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Author : Bettany Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2006
Helen Of Troy written by Bettany Hughes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Civilization, Mycenaean categories.
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?
Paris And Helen Of Troy
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Author : Peter W. Katsirubas
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2021-10-18
Paris And Helen Of Troy written by Peter W. Katsirubas and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-18 with Fiction categories.
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?
The Story Of Helen Troy
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Author : Burton Harrison
language : en
Publisher: General Books
Release Date : 2012-01
The Story Of Helen Troy written by Burton Harrison and has been published by General Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01 with categories.
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter II. What more natural than that Mr. Russell should prove the first gentleman to regain the drawing- room, where Helen sat in a high Jacobean chair of carved black oak, amid cushions of deep-blue velvet, the trail of her lustreless white silk, the string of pearls around her throat, the Persian jar of lilies at her side, accentuating her admirable representation of the maiden hostess waiting at her post. The tea- things were on a tiny table within reach. A silver kettle sung from the tripod on the hearth. I can't sufficiently congratulate myself on being reserved for this period of the world's culture, when women make pictures of themselves without the least apparent effort, Arthur said, dropping into a low chair by her side. Now that I am here, I hope they will all keep away, and permit me to ' sa- vorer mes delices.' Think of my self-denial, though, in turning rny back on Clos Vougeot like your father's, not to speak of an animated discussion between those old army men as to the ins and outs of the taking of the city of Mexico, which one would think a more recent event than the capture of Richmond, and of quite as much importance. They were just getting round Lake Cuzco when I left. Pray go back to Lake Cuzco, wherever that may be, Helen said, with a curl of the lip; I wassleepy and comfortable; besides, I had ' The Marble Faun' to fall back upon, and one can't exaggerate the luxury of a little quiet time to one's self after New-year in New York. I almost think, Arthur went on, unheeding her, I like you better in that white thing than. in any other gown you wear; though my pet fancy is to sec your hair blending with a robe of a sort of golden chestnut, like Titian's daughter, you remember. Still, this is good; and?I don't know?but it seems to ha...
Homer S Epics
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Author : Homer
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Homer S Epics written by Homer and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Poetry categories.
These two timeless epics by the ancient Greek poet—each translated by a world-renowned author—have captured the Western imagination for millennia. The Iliad: Alexander Pope “works miracles” in this beautiful verse translation of Homer’s epic poem set near the end of the Trojan War. It centers on a quarrel between the invading Greek king Agamemnon and his greatest asset in battle, the warrior Achilles. From this conflict, Homer weaves a tale of warring nations, vengeful gods, and the terrible consequences of prideful rage (The New York Times). The Odyssey: The Trojan War is over and Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, embarks to return home. But he is cursed by the god Poseidon to wander the perilous earth for ten years before reaching his destination. Homer’s epic adventure of survival by wit and battling mythical creatures is presented here in a stirring prose translation by Samuel Butler.
Helen Of Sparta
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Author : Amalia Carosella
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Helen Of Sparta written by Amalia Carosella and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Fate and fatalism categories.
Long before she ran away with Paris to Troy, Helen of Sparta was haunted by nightmares of a burning city under siege. These dreams foretold impending war--a war that only Helen has the power to avert. To do so, she must defy her family and betray her betrothed by fleeing the palace in the dead of night. In need of protection, she finds shelter and comfort in the arms of Theseus, son of Poseidon. With Theseus at her side, she believes she can escape her destiny. But at every turn, new dangers--violence, betrayal, extortion, threat of war--thwart Helen's plans and bar her path. Still, she refuses to bend to the will of the gods. A new take on an ancient myth, Helen of Sparta is the story of one woman determined to decide her own fate. The sequel to Helen of Sparta will be published by Lake Union Publishing in June 2016.