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Helen of Troy - Goddess, Princess, Whore (Paperback)
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Helen of Troy - Goddess, Princess, Whore (Paperback)
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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.
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