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Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
Bettany Hughes
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Description for Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
Paperback. 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. For millennia she has been viewed as an exquisite agent of extermination. But who was she? Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 235 x 38. Weight in Grams: 726.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845952143
SKU
V9781845952143
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About Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster who has devoted much of the last twenty years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her first book, Helen of Troy: Goddess,Princess, Whore, was published to great critical acclaim and has now been translated into ten languages. Her latest work, The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search For The ... Read more
Reviews for Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
The book triumphantly reclaims Helen from some of her traducers. Hughes' portrait is as close to a real, living Helen as we are likely to get
Financial Times
This book is a real tour de force. It combines astonishing erudition and knowledge of the early classical world with a wonderful easy fluency of writing ... Read more
Financial Times
This book is a real tour de force. It combines astonishing erudition and knowledge of the early classical world with a wonderful easy fluency of writing ... Read more