Ruby Blondell

Helen of Troy

Beauty, Myth, Devastation

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780190263539
• ISBN-10: 0190263539
• Artikelnr.: 47863284

Autorenporträt

Ruby Blondell is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Preface
1. The Problem of Female Beauty
2. Helen, Daughter of Zeus
3. Self-Blame and Self-Assertion: the Iliad
4. Happily Ever After? The Odyssey
5. Refractions of Homer's Helen: Archaic Lyric
6. Behind the Scenes: Aeschylus' Oresteia
7. Spartan Woman and Spartan Goddess: Herodotus
8. Playing Defense: Gorgias' Encomium of Helen
9. Enter Helen: Euripides' Trojan Women
10. Two-Faced Helen: the Helen of Euripides
11. Helen MacGuffin: Isocrates
Epilogue
Bibliographical Notes
Bibliography
Index