Helen in Egypt - New Directions Book - Hilda Doolittle - Książki - W W Norton & Co Ltd - 9780811205443 - 1 lutego 1974
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Helen in Egypt - New Directions Book Reprint edition

Hilda Doolittle

Helen in Egypt - New Directions Book Reprint edition

A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B. C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem.

The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B. C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.


304 pages

Media Książki     Paperback Book   (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem)
Wydane 1 lutego 1974
ISBN13 9780811205443
Wydawcy W W Norton & Co Ltd
Strony 304
Wymiary 203 × 134 × 24 mm   ·   350 g
Język English  

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