![]() ![]() Focusing on a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age, cultural and social historian Hughes reconstructs the context of her life. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes the focus of a cult that conflated Helen the heroine with a pre-Greek fertility goddess the home-wrecker of the Iliad the bitch-whore of Greek tragedy the pin-up of Romantic artists. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. 347-443) and indexįor close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2005 ![]()
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