Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
By Bettany Hughes.
Description
A major new book about the life and legend of the world’s ‘most beautiful woman’ – by the new star of TV history.As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject. Hesiod, a poet born around 700BC and one of the first named authors in history, called her ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’ and the description endured. Even though we have no contemporary representations of her, this Bronze Age princess is still seen as a paradigm of absolute beauty and as a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.Because of her double marriag...
ISBN(s)
184413329X, 9781844133291
