The Rape Of Helen Or The Origin Of The Trojan War
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The War at Troy
Author | : Barry B. Powell |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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.
The Trojan War
Author | : Barry Strauss |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-08-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743264428 |
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
Paris and Helen of Troy
Author | : Peter W. Katsirubas |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2021-10-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1665539577 |
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?
Helen of Troy - Influential Women in History
Author | : Anon |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473353785 |
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.
Helen of Troy
Author | : Ruby Blondell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190263539 |
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.
The Rape of Helen
Author | : Colluthus (of Lycopolis.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1786 |
Genre | : Ballad operas |
ISBN | : |
Helen of Troy
Author | : Bettany Hughes |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Civilization, Mycenaean |
ISBN | : 184413329X |
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?
The Women of Troy
Author | : Pat Barker |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2021-08-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 038554670X |
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.