Ebook {Epub PDF} Helen of Troy: Goddess Princess Whore by Bettany Hughes

Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster who has devoted much of the last twenty years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her first book, Helen of Troy. Bettany Hughes’s book, Helen of Troy, is a work of staggeringly epic proportions. It is the story of Helen of Troy – not just as a historical or mythological figure, but a cultural figure. Through the eyes of a young aristocratic Mycenaean woman, Hughes looks at the social and political minutiae that would have made Helen who she was: her palaces, her slaves, her jewellery, her.

Professor Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster, who has devoted the last 25 years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. Her first book, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore has been translated into ten. Helen of Troy: Goddess, princess, whore, by Bettany Hughes The face that launched 1, myths. Dunsany's joke is quoted in Bettany Hughes's sprawling and meticulously-researched book about. Bettany Hughes: "Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore". Exhibit no. in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is a slightly larger-than-life-size statue of Paris, frozen at the moment the Trojan prince stretches out to offer the golden apple to Aphrodite. Even in the bustle of Athens' busiest museum the Trojan prince.

For close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore. by. Bettany Hughes. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. An erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy-–a chronicle combining historical inquiry storytelling élan–-from one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed historians. As soon as men began writing they made Helen of. Synopsis: As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close on three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West.