Helen of Troy: The Enigma of Beauty
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Product Description
While writing my novel Helen of Troy, many people asked me, “Was she really the most beautiful woman in the world?” Our fascination with beauty has not diminished one iota since the Bronze Age, and I wanted to explore that phenomenon in “Helen of Troy: The Enigma of Beauty.” Is beauty the universal currency? How much power does it give its possessor? And how much is in the eye of the beholder? And, of course, was Helen a real woman, or just an abstract ideal of pure beauty? Did she have to spend her life saying the ancient equivalent of “Don't hate me because I'm beautiful”?
Product Details
Title: Helen of Troy: The Enigma of Beauty
Sales Rank: 756707 in Books
Author: Margaret George
Publisher: Amazon, 2006-09-08, Digital, 11 pages
Customer Reviews
- An historically accurate lead-in to what could be a very good historical novel
- There is no question that the ancient city of Troy referenced in the work of Homer really existed. However, any rational examination of the Iliad placed in the context of the times forces the conclusion that the Trojan War as depicted in the Iliad is largely false. At the time the war supposedly took place, the Greek city states were not organized… More reviews
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