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

~ Robert Emmet Meagher (Author)
Key Phrases: kalon kakon, very holy one, Great Goddess, Bronze Age, Near East (more...)

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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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Paperback: 191 pages
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers (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)

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,534,509 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kalon kakon, very holy one

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Great Goddess, Bronze Age, Near East, Old Europe, The Duality of Helen, The Many Helens, Mother of All, Minoan Crete, The Truth of Helen, Trojan War, Asia Minor, The First Helen, Indus Valley, East Mediterranean, Peloponnesian War, Sea Peoples, Upper Paleolithic

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5.0 out of 5 stars A superbly written and presented work, January 4, 2003

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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.

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