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Helen of Troy, Queen of Sparta

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Paris (Legendary character) --- Vases, Ancient --- Helen, - of Troy, Queen of Sparta

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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 Greek sources, Edmunds argues that if Helen was just one trope of the abducted wife, the quest for Helen's origin in Spartan cult can be abandoned, as can the quest for an Indo-European goddess who grew into the Helen myth. He explains that Helen was not a divine essence but a narrative figure that could replicate itself as needed, at various times or places in ancient Greece. Edmunds recovers some of these narrative Helens, such as those of the Pythagoreans and of Simon Magus, which then inspired the Helens of the Faust legend and Goethe. Stealing Helen offers a detailed critique of prevailing views behind the "real" Helen and presents an eye-opening exploration of the many sources for this international mythical and literary icon.

Abduction in literature --- Helen, --- In literature --- Abduction in literature. --- Literature. --- In literature. --- Helen, - of Troy, Queen of Sparta - In literature --- Elena, --- Helena, --- Helenē, --- Yelena, --- 海伦 , --- ヘレネー, --- הלנה, --- העלענע, --- 헬레네, --- Хелена, --- Єлена, --- Елена , --- هلن, --- هيلين, --- Ἑλένη, --- Helen, - of Troy, Queen of Sparta

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The history of European fashion reaches as far back as the history of literature and art. Luxurious fabrics and the enjoyment of beautiful clothing appear even in the oldest figural depictions and in the works of Homer. In ancient Greek society, the aesthetic enthusiasm for clothing and fashion is related to the enjoyment of beautiful forms and human beauty. Textiles and clothing have served as a means of cultural and gender differentiation for many centuries, and the period from 750 to 450 BC is of particular interest. In this book, the authors take an approach to the study of fashion in the early Greek world that combines the perspectives of social history, art history/archaeology, and the history of aesthetics.

Women's clothing - Greece - History --- Clothing and dress - Greece - History --- Decorative arts, Ancient - Greece. --- Women's clothing - Greece - History - Pictorial works --- Clothing and dress - Greece - History - Pictorial works --- Decorative arts, Ancient - Greece - Pictorial works. --- Helen, -- of Troy, Queen of Sparta -- Family --- Arts décoratifs antiques --- Clothing and dress --- Clothing and dress. --- Decorative arts, Ancient --- Decorative arts, Ancient. --- Families. --- Vêtements de femme --- Women's clothing --- Women's clothing. --- History --- Histoire --- Helen, --- Family. --- Greece.

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