Helen Of Troy: Goddess Princess Whore Bettany Hughes Pimlico Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

As Soon Men Began To Write They Made Helen Of Troy Their Subject For Nearly Three Thousand Years She Has Been Both The Embodiment Absolute Female Beauty And A Reminder Terrible Power That Can Wield Because Her Double Marriage Greek King Menelaus Trojan Prince Paris Was Held Responsible War Enduring Enmity Between East West Millennia Viewed An Exquisite Agent Extermination But Who She?Helen Exists In Many Guises: Matriarch From Age Heroes Ruled Over One Most Fertile Areas Mycenaean World Sparta Focus Cult Which Conflated Heroine With Pre-Greek Fertility Goddess Home-Wrecker Iliad Bitch-Whore Tragedy Pin-Up Romantic Artists Focusing On \ Real\ - Flesh-And-Blood Aristocrat Bronze Acclaimed Historian Bettany Hughes Reconstructs Context Life This Elusive Pre-Historic Princess Places Alongside Heroines Myth History Through Eyes Young Woman Examines Physical Historical Cultural Traces Left Locations Greece North Africa Asia Minor Vivid Compelling Remarkable Book Brilliantly Unpacks Facts Myths Surrounding Enigmatic Notorious Figures All Time Σελίδες: 496 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm