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Helen of Troy : beauty, myth, devastationBlondell, Ruby, 1954-"The story of Helen of Troy has its origins in ancient Greek epic and didactic poetry, more than 2500 years ago, but it remains one of the world's most galvanizing myths about the destructive power ... of beauty. Much like the ancient Greeks, our own relationship to female beauty is deeply ambivalent, fraught with both desire and danger. We worship and fear it, advertise it everywhere yet try desperately to control and contain it. No other myth evocatively captures this ambivalence better than that of Helen, daughter of Zeus and Leda, and wife of the Spartan leader Menelaus. Her elopement with (or abduction by) the Trojan prince Paris "launched a thousand ships" and started the most famous war in antiquity. For ancient Greek poets and philosophers, the Helen myth provided a means to explore the paradoxical nature of female beauty, which is at once an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction, yet also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. Many ancients simply vilified Helen for her role in the Trojan War but there is much more to her story than that: the kidnapping of Helen by the Athenian hero Theseus, her sibling-like relationship with Achilles, the religious cult in which she was worshipped by maidens and newlyweds, and the variant tradition which claims she never went to Troy at all but was whisked away to Egypt and replaced with a phantom. In this book, author Ruby Blondell offers a fresh look at the paradoxes and ambiguities that Helen embodies. Moving from Homer and Hesiod to Sappho, Aeschylus, Euripides, and others, Helen of Troy shows how this powerful myth was continuously reshaped and revisited by the Greeks. By focusing on this key figure from ancient Greece, the book both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a fascinating perspective on our own." - Besedilo s knjižnega zavihka.Type of material - book ; adult, seriousPublication and manufacture - New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Language - englishISBN - 978-0-19-026353-9COBISS.SI-ID - 15727262
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Blondell, Ruby, 1954-
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Helena (mitološka junakinja) |
Homer, 8. st. pr.n.š. |
"Iliada" |
"Odiseja" |
Ajshil, 525-456 pr.n.š. |
"Oresteja" |
Herodot, ok. 490-425 pr.n.š. |
Gorgias, ok. 483-385 pr.n.š. |
"Enkomij Heleni" |
Evripid, ok. 485-406 pr.n.š. |
"Trojanke" |
"Helena" |
Izokrat, 446-338 pr.n.š. |
Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature |
Greek literature |
History and criticism |
Latin literature |
History and criticism |
literatura in mitologija |
grška književnost |
grško zgodovinopisje |
antično govorništvo |
tragedija |
arhaična lirika |
tematologija |
literarni miti |
trojanska Helena
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