Stealing Helen

The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective

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Lowell Edmunds

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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

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

April 28th, 2020

Author

Lowell Edmunds

Pages

448

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

19 halftones. 11 line illus. 2 tables. 2 maps.

ISBN-13

9780691202334

Product ID

31933240

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