The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon (Student Notebooks) [Paperback]

Robert Emmet Meagher (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0865165106 | ISBN-13: 978-0865165106 | Publication Date: June 1, 2002 | Edition: 1St Edition

Helen's face launched a thousand ships, to say nothing of countless books, dramas, poems, paintings, and operas. She is arguably the most notorious woman in Western culture. What makes her so engaging, so consequential? Like an ancient wall layered with millennia of graffiti, Helen preserves the human record. Her story and our story are not to be plied apart. She is woman as we have idealized, worshipped, slandered, celebrated, constructed and deconstructed her. Helen, for better or for worse, in all her metamorphoses, represents the complex, intact fossil record of woman in Western culture. The story of Helen is the story of woman.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers; 1St Edition edition (June 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865165106
• ISBN-13: 978-0865165106
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A superbly written and presented work, January 4, 2003

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This review is from: The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon (Student Notebooks) (Paperback)

The Meaning Of Helen: In Search Of An Ancient Icon by Robert Emmet Meagher (Professor of Humanities in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts) is an impressive and scholarly study of the legendary Helen of Greek antiquity whose behavior triggered the downfall of Troy. Reported as having "the face that launched a thousand ships), Western culture has regarded Helen as an iconic standard of beauty ever since those ancient days. Deftly blending a meticulously researched history with philosophy, and as a study of evolving cultural perspectives, The Meaning Of Helen draws an unforgettable metaphor between the story of Helen and the story of womankind. Enhanced with exhaustive notes and an appendix on "History and Imagination", The Meaning Of Helen is a superbly written and presented work that should be a part of every college and university Greek Mythology reference collection.