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Hughes, Bettany.
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Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta.
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Helen of Troy : goddess, princess, whore / Bettany Hughes.
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Hughes, Bettany.
New York : Knopf, 2005.
Subjects
Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta.
ISBN:
1400041783 (hardcover) :
Description:
xxxvii, 458 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Contents:
Helen's birth in pre-history -- The land of beautiful women -- The world's desire -- Kourotrophos -- A lover's game -- Eros and eris -- Troy beckons -- Troy besieged -- Immortal Helen -- The face that launched a thousand ships.
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For close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy 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. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes; the focus of a cult that 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 a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age, cultural and social historian Hughes reconstructs the context of her life. Through the eyes of a young Mycenaean princess, Hughes examines the physical, historical, and cultural traces that Helen has left on locations in Greece, North Africa, and Asia Minor.--From publisher description.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
398.352 Hu
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06/25/2024
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
398.352 Hughes
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12/14/2010
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Adult Nonfiction
398.352 Hu
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Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library
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398.352 Hu
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