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Helen of Troy : beauty, myth, devastation / Ruby Blondell.
LIBRA PA3015.R5 H3725 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blondell, Ruby, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta--In literature.
- Helen.
- Greek literature--History and criticism.
- Greek literature.
- Latin literature--History and criticism.
- Latin literature.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- The problem of female beauty
- Helen, daughter of Zeus
- Disarming beauty: the Iliad
- Happily ever after?: the Odyssey
- The many faces of Helen: archaic lyric
- Behind the scenes: the Oresteia
- Spartan woman and Spartan goddess: Herodotus
- Playing defense: Gorgias' encomium of Helen
- Enter Helen: Euripides' Trojan women
- Two-faced Helen: the Helen of Euripides
- Helen MacGuffin: Isocrates.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199731602
- 0199731608
- OCLC:
- 810442609
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