Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
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Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
By (Author) Lowell Edmunds
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
398.273
Physical Properties
Hardback
448
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
765g
Description
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
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
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.
