{"product_id":"helen-of-troy-goddess-princess-whore","title":"Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy-–a chronicle combining historical inquiry \u0026amp; storytelling élan–-from one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed historians. As soon as men began writing they made Helen of Troy their subject. For close to 3000 years she's been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty \u0026amp; a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus \u0026amp; the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for enmity between East \u0026amp; West. For millennia she's been viewed as an agent of extermination. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Heroic Age who ruled over one of the most fertile areas of the Mycenaean world; Helen of Sparta, the focus of a cult that conflated the heroine with a pre-Greek fertility goddess; the home-wrecker of the\nIliad\n; the bitch-whore of Greek tragedy; the pin-up of Romantic artists. Focusing on the “real” Helen–-a flesh-\u0026amp;-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age–-Hughes reconstructs the life context of this prehistoric princess. Thru the eyes of a young Mycenaean woman, she examines the physical, historical \u0026amp; cultural traces that Helen has left on locations in Greece, N. Africa \u0026amp; Asia Minor. This book unpacks the facts \u0026amp; myths surrounding one of the most enigmatic \u0026amp; notorious figures of all time.\nIllustrations\nText Acknowledgements\nMaps\nTimeline\nDramatis Personae\nFamily Trees\nForeword \u0026amp; Acknowledgements\nIntroduction\nCherchez la femme\nAn evil destiny\nHelen-hunting\nGoddess, princess, whore\n1. Helen's birth in pre-history\nA dangerous landscape\nA rape, a birth\nThe lost citadel\nThe Mycenaeans\nThe pre-historic princess\n2. The land of beautiful women\nThe rape of 'fair Hellen'\nSparte kalligynaika\nTender-eyed girls\n3. The world's desire\nA trophy for heroes\nThe kingmaker\nA royal wedding\n4. Kourotrophos\nHermione\nA welcome burden\nHelen, high priestess\nLa belle Hélène\n5. A lover's game\nThe golden apple\nBearing gifts\nAlexander Helenam Rapuit\nThe female of the species is more deadly than the male\n6. Eros \u0026amp; Eris\nHelen the whore\nThe pain of Aphrodite\nThe sea's foaming lanes\n7. Troy beckons\nEast is east \u0026amp; west is west\nThe fair Troad\nThe topless towers of Ilium\nThe golden houses of the east\nA fleet sets sail\n8. Troy besieged\nHelen, destroyer of cities\nDeath's dark cloud\nA beautiful death, Kalos Thanatos\nThe fall of Troy\n9. Immortal Helen\nHome to Sparta\nThe death of a queen\nThe age of heroes ends\n'Fragrant treasuries'\nThe daughter of the ocean\n10. The face that launched a thousand ships\nHelen in Athens\nHelen lost \u0026amp; Helen found\nHelen, Homer \u0026amp; the chances of survival\nVeyn fables\nHelen of Troy \u0026amp; the bad Samaritan\nPerpulchra, more than beautiful\nDancing with the devil\nHelen's nemesis\nAppendices\nThe Minotaur's island\nLa Parisienne\nWomen of stone \u0026amp; clay \u0026amp; bronze\nElemental Helen, she-gods \u0026amp; she-devils\nRoyal purple, the color of congealed blood\nEpilogue: Myth, history \u0026amp; historia\nAbbreviations\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buy3X.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52911039611104,"sku":"9781844133291_Kitabay Jaipur_72A1","price":15.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.carouselstore.co.uk\/products\/helen-of-troy-goddess-princess-whore","provider":"Carousel Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}