Helen of Troy The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

Name: Helen of Troy The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
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ISBN: 9781400076000

ISBN-10: 1400076005

ISBN-13: 9781400076000

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Authors: Bettany Hughes

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A major new book about the life and legend of the world’s ‘most beautiful woman’ – by the new star of TV history. As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject. Hesiod, a poet born around 700BC and one of the first named authors in history, called her ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’ and the description endured. Even though we have no contemporary representations of her, this Bronze Age princess is still seen as a paradigm of absolute beauty and as a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Hittite Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for the enduring enmity between East and West.…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.98" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Illustrations Text


Acknowledgements


Maps


Timeline Dramatis Personï¿½ Family Trees


Foreword and Acknowledgements


Introduction


Cherchez la Femme An Evil Destiny Helen-Hunting Goddess, Princess, Whore



Helen’s Birth in Pre-History



A Dangerous Landscape



A Rape, a Birth



The Lost Citadel



The Mycenaeans



The Pre-historic Princess



The Land of Beautiful Women



The Rape of ‘Fair Hellen’



Sparte Kalligynaika



Tender-eyed Girls



The World’s Desire



A Trophy for Heroes



The Kingmaker



A Royal Wedding



Kourotrophos



Hermione



A Welcome Burden



Helen, High Priestess



La Belle Hï¿½lï¿½ne



A Lover’s Game



The Golden Apple



Bearing Gifts



Alexander Helenam Rapuit



The Female of the Species Is More Deadly Than the Male



Eros and Eris



Helen the Whore



The Pain of Aphrodite



The Sea’s Foaming Lanes



Troy Beckons



East Is East and West Is West



The Fair Troad



The Topless Towers of Ilium



The Golden Houses of the East



A Fleet Sets Sail



Troy Besieged



Helen – Destroyer of Cities



Death’s Dark Cloud



A Beautiful Death – Kalos Thanatos



The Fall of Troy



Immortal Helen



Home to Sparta



The Death of a Queen



The Age of Heroes Ends



‘Fragrant Treasuries’



The Daughter of the Ocean



The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships



Helen in Athens



Helen Lost and Helen Found



Helen, Homer and the Chances of Survival



Veyn Fables



Helen of Troy and the Bad Samaritan



‘Perpulchra’ – More Than Beautiful



Dancing with the Devil



Helen’s Nemesis


Appendices



The Minotaur’s Island



La Parisienne



Women of Stone and Clay and Bronze



Elemental Helen – She-Gods and She-Devils



Royal Purple – The Colour of Congealed Blood


Epilogue – Myth, History and Historia


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index