Helen of Troy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815351803321
• Autore: Lang Andrew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Auckland, : The Floating Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-77556-704-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetti: Greeks -- Turkey -- Fiction; Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) -- Fiction; Mythology, Greek -- Fiction; Trojan War -- Fiction; Troy (Extinct city) -- Fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title; Contents; Book I The Coming of Paris; Book II The Spell of Aphrodite; Book III The Flight of Helen; Book IV The Death of Corythus; Book V The War; Book VI The Sack of Troy The Return of Helen; Note
• Sommario/riassunto: Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology. In Lang's Helen of Troy , a story in rhyme of the fortunes of Helen, the theory that she was an unwilling victim of the Gods has been preferred. Many of the descriptions of manners are versified from the Iliad and the Odyssey. The description of the events after the death...