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Helen - in Greek mythology, the most beautiful of women; daughter of Leda and Zeus, and sister of Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra. While still a young girl Helen was abducted to Attica by Theseus and Polydeuces, but Castor and Pollux rescued her. Later, when she was courted by the greatest heroes and chieftains of Greece, her foster father, Tyndareus, fearful of their jealousies, demanded


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    Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen » Read Now

    by Euripides, James Morwood. 218 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets." In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to use his own words, "as they are." Responsive to...
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    Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides ("Helen" begins on p. 217) » Read Now

    by Ruby Blondell, Mary-Kay Gamel, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Bella Zweig. 496 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Women in tragedy often disrupt "normal" life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly, tell lies, cause public unrest, violate custom, defy orders, even kill. Women on the Edge offers examples of women who support the status quo and women who oppose and disrupt it; sometimes these are the...
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    Helen » Read Now

    by Euripides, Robert Emmet Meagher. 118 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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    Troy: Its Legend, History and Literature (1880) (Chap. II "Helen") » Read Now

    by S. G. W. Benjamin. 180 pgs.

    ...restoration of Helen 19 Unwillingness of Odysseus to go to Troy 20...flight and death of Helen 97 PART II...AND TOPOGRAPHY OF TROY. CHAPTER...Sparta. The fame of Helen had...
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    Helen's Calibans: A Study of Gender Hierarchy in Derek Walcott's Omeros, in World Literature Today » Read Now

    by Julie A. Minkler. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Sparta (alias Helen of Troy) was lewd and unchaste...version, however, of which he himself...according to which Helen did not really go to Troy but ended up in...1.6.2)...
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    Tales of Troy and Greece » Read Now

    by Andrew Lang. 302 pgs.

    ...GREECE -ii- THE STEALING OF HELEN TALES OF TROY AND GREECE BY ANDREW...XIV. THE END OF TROY AND THE SAVING OF HELEN 105 I. THE SLAYING OF...Trojan princes. The fame of...
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    Gods and Heroes of the Greeks: The Library of Apollodorus (Chap. Ten "Agamemnon and Menelaus, Sons of Atreus, and Their Marriages with Clytemnestra and Helen" and Chap. 11 "The Trojan War") » Read Now

    by Michael Simpson. 312 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...example, the catalog of Greek chieftains who went to Troy: Epitome 3. 11-14...10 . 474-502 tells of Rhesus, just arrived in Troy, killed in his sleep...aganst Thebes and...
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    Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality (Chap. Two "The Golden Child of the Bloody Foam" and Chap. Seven "Wives and the Order of the House") » Read Now

    by Bruce S. Thornton. 288 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Bruce Thornton's sweeping and comprehensive account of ancient sexuality is refreshingly free of currently fashionable jargon. He challenges the distortions of much recent scholarship on Greek sexuality and their attitudes to family, love and sex.
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    The Myths of Greece & Rome (Chap. XXV "The Trojan War") » Read Now

    by H. A. Guerber. 416 pgs.

    ...youth, Ganymede, the son of a king of Troy, was carefully instructed in the...banished to earth, to build the walls of Troy. The god of music seated himself near...story...
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    The Legends of Troy in Art and Literature » Read Now

    by Margaret R. Scherer. 304 pgs.

    ...be his father, Priam of Troy. Euripides Trojan Women Helen herself describes the...indeed. 26. THE ARRIVAL OF PARIS AND HELEN AT TROY. From the Chronique...noble King Priam...
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    The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art » Read Now

    by Michael J. Anderson. 283 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Greek myth-makers crafted the downfall of Troy and its rulers into an archetypal illustration of ruthless conquest, deceit, crime and punishment, and the variability of human fortunes. This book examines the major episodes in the archetypal myth--the murder of Priam, the rape of Kassandra, the...
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    Troilus and Criseyde » Read Now

    by Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt. 210 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This is a modern English prose translation intended as an accurate guide to the Middle English original, and...

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