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Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Lowell Edmunds
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Description for Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 19 halftones. 11 line illus. 2 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 786.
It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became known. Investigating Helen's status in ancient ... Read more
It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became known. Investigating Helen's status in ancient ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
790g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691165127
SKU
V9780691165127
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About Lowell Edmunds
Lowell Edmunds is professor emeritus of classics at Rutgers University. He is the author of Oedipus: The Ancient Legend and Its Later Analogues and the editor of Approaches to Greek Myth.
Reviews for Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Ultimately, the book's greatest merit may lie ... in his [Edmunds'] broad horizons
in his delight at discovering similarities between classical literature and the tales and experiences of people across the globe.
Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education Edmunds brings to this rich, sophisticated book an innovative approach to the Helen story: he looks at it with a comparative eye.
Choice ... Read more
in his delight at discovering similarities between classical literature and the tales and experiences of people across the globe.
Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education Edmunds brings to this rich, sophisticated book an innovative approach to the Helen story: he looks at it with a comparative eye.
Choice ... Read more