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Trojan War --- Poetry. --- Helen, --- Elena, --- Helena, --- Helenē, --- Yelena, --- 海伦 , --- ヘレネー, --- הלנה, --- העלענע, --- 헬레네, --- Хелена, --- Єлена, --- Елена , --- هلن, --- هيلين, --- Ἑλένη, --- Troy (Extinct city) --- History --- Epic poetry, Greek

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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 comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became known. Investigating Helen's status in ancient Greek sources, Edmunds argues that if Helen was just one trope of the abducted wife, the quest for Helen's origin in Spartan cult can be abandoned, as can the quest for an Indo-European goddess who grew into the Helen myth. He explains that Helen was not a divine essence but a narrative figure that could replicate itself as needed, at various times or places in ancient Greece. Edmunds recovers some of these narrative Helens, such as those of the Pythagoreans and of Simon Magus, which then inspired the Helens of the Faust legend and Goethe. Stealing Helen offers a detailed critique of prevailing views behind the "real" Helen and presents an eye-opening exploration of the many sources for this international mythical and literary icon.

Abduction in literature --- Helen, --- In literature --- Abduction in literature. --- Literature. --- In literature. --- Helen, - of Troy, Queen of Sparta - In literature --- Elena, --- Helena, --- Helenē, --- Yelena, --- 海伦 , --- ヘレネー, --- הלנה, --- העלענע, --- 헬레네, --- Хелена, --- Єлена, --- Елена , --- هلن, --- هيلين, --- Ἑλένη, --- Helen, - of Troy, Queen of Sparta

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This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to address and name her. Her epithets, most of them referring to her beauty or her kinship with Zeus and coming mainly from the narrator, make her the counterpart of the heroes.

Epic poetry, Greek --- History and criticism --- Homer --- Helen, --- Elena, --- Helena, --- Helenē, --- Yelena, --- 海伦 , --- ヘレネー, --- הלנה, --- העלענע, --- 헬레네, --- Хелена, --- Єлена, --- Елена , --- هلن, --- هيلين, --- Ἑλένη, --- Homerus --- Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homère --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Characters --- Helen. --- Language. --- In literature.

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Classical Greek literature --- Bacchantes --- Euripides --- Pentheus, --- Dionysus --- Ion --- Hecuba, --- Helen, --- Ecuba, --- Hecabe, --- Hécube, --- Hekaba, --- Hekabē, --- Hekabo, --- Hekuba, --- 赫库芭, --- ヘカベー, --- הקובה, --- 헤카베, --- Гекаба, --- Гекуба, --- Хекаба, --- Хекуба, --- هکابه, --- هيكوبا, --- Ἑκάβη, --- Elena, --- Helena, --- Helenē, --- Yelena, --- 海伦 , --- ヘレネー, --- הלנה, --- העלענע, --- 헬레네, --- Хелена, --- Єлена, --- Елена , --- هلن, --- هيلين, --- Ἑλένη, --- Ió --- Iōnas --- Ione --- Jonas --- 伊昂 --- 이온 --- Јон --- Іон --- Йон --- إيون --- Ἴων --- Ἰωνας --- Bacchus --- Bakchos --- Dionís --- Dionisas --- Dioniso --- Dionīss --- Dionisu --- Dioniz --- Dionizi --- Dionizo --- Dionizos --- Dionüszosz --- Dionysos --- Dionýzos --- Diyonizosse --- Διόνυσος --- Дионис --- ديونيسوس --- 디오니소스 --- דיוניסוס --- ディオニューソス --- 狄俄倪索斯 --- Βάκχος --- Діоніс --- Penthée, --- Πενθεύς, --- Τενθεύς, --- Tentheus, --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Translations into English.

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"The lives of Catullus and Horace overlap by a dozen years in the first century BC. Yet, though they are the undisputed masters of the lyric voice in Roman poetry, Horace directly mentions his great predecessor, Catullus, only once, and this reference has often been taken as mocking. In fact, Horace's allusion, far from disparaging Catullus, pays him a discreet compliment by suggesting the challenge that his accomplishment presented to his successors, including Horace himself. In Poetic Interplay, the first book-length study of Catullus's influence on Horace, Michael Putnam shows that the earlier poet was probably the single most important source of inspiration for Horace's Odes, the later author's magnum opus. Except in some half-dozen poems, Catullus is not, technically, writing lyric because his favored meters do not fall into that category. Nonetheless, however disparate their preferred genres and their stylistic usage, Horace found in the poetry of Catullus, whatever its mode of presentation, a constant stimulus for his imagination. And, despite the differences between the two poets, Putnam's close readings reveal that many of Horace's poems echo Catullus verbally, thematically, or both. By illustrating how Horace often found his own voice even as he acknowledged Catullus's genius, Putnam guides us to a deeper appreciation of the earlier poet as well"--Provided by publisher.

Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Odes, Latin --- Hélène (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. --- Odes latines --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Horace --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius --- Virgil --- Knowledge --- Literature. --- Influence. --- In literature. --- Rome --- Rome dans la littérature --- Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Odes --- History and criticism --- Literature --- Influence --- In literature --- Hélène (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Influence littéraire, artistique, etc. --- Rome dans la littérature --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Vergil --- Virgile --- Virgilio Máron, Publio --- Virgilius Maro, Publius --- Vergili Maronis, Publius --- Catul --- Catull --- Catulle --- Catulli, C. Valerii --- Catullo, Gaio Valerio --- Catullus, C. Valerius --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius, --- Catullus, Gajus Valerius --- Catulo --- Katull, Gaǐ Valeriǐ --- Katullus, Kaius Valerius --- Valerio Cátulo, Cayo --- Катулл --- Orazio --- Horacij Flakk, Kvint --- Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Astyanax (Legendary character) --- Jason (Greek mythology) --- Poésie épique latine médiévale et moderne --- Astyanax (Personnage légendaire) --- Enée (Personnage légendaire) --- Jason (Mythologie grecque) --- Vegio, Maffeo, --- Anthony, --- Poésie épique latine médiévale et moderne --- Astyanax (Personnage légendaire) --- Enée (Personnage légendaire) --- Lyric poetry --- Poetry --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Helen, --- Elena, --- Helena, --- Helenē, --- Yelena, --- 海伦 , --- ヘレネー, --- הלנה, --- העלענע, --- 헬레네, --- Хелена, --- Єлена, --- Елена , --- هلن, --- هيلين, --- Ἑλένη, --- Aeneas (Legendary character) --- Latin epic poetry, Medieval and modern --- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- Scamandrius (Legendary character) --- Legends --- Veggius, Mapheus, --- Vegius, Mapheus, --- Anbā Anṭūnīyūs, --- Anthony the Abbot, --- Antoine, --- Antoniĭ Velikiĭ, --- Antonio, --- Antonius, --- Antonius Magnus, --- Antony, --- Qiddīs Anṭūnīyūs, --- قديس مصر أنطونيوس --- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus --- Vergilius Maro, Publius --- in literature. --- Horatius Flaccus, Q. --- Translations into English. --- Poetry. --- Traductions anglaises --- Poésie --- Virgilius Maro, Publius, --- Virgilio Marone, P., --- Vergilīĭ, --- Virgile, --- Vergílio, --- Wergiliusz, --- Vergilīĭ Maron, P. --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ, --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P., --- Vergil, --- Virgilio, --- Virgilīĭ, --- Virgilius Maro, P., --- Virgil Maro, P., --- ווירגיל, --- וירגיליוס, --- ורגיליוס, --- מרו, פובליוס ורגיליוס, --- فرجيل, --- Pseudo-Virgil, --- Pseudo Virgilio, --- Virgilio Marón, Publio, --- Bhārjila, --- Vergilius Maro, P. --- Vergilius --- Virgilio Marone, P. --- Vergilīĭ --- Vergílio --- Wergiliusz --- Vergilīĭ Maron, Publīĭ --- Verhiliĭ Maron, P. --- Virgilio --- Virgilius Maro, P. --- Virgil Maro, P. --- Pseudo-Virgil --- Pseudo Virgilio --- Virgilio Marón, Publio --- Bhārjila --- Catullus, Caius Valerius --- Aeneas --- Jason --- Helen --- Anton, --- Gorat︠s︡īĭ --- Gorat︠s︡iĭ Flakk, Kvint --- Horacij --- Horacio, --- Horacio Flaco, Q. --- Horacjusz --- Horacjusz Flakkus, Kwintus --- Horacy --- Horaṭiyos --- Horaṭiyus --- Horats --- Horaz --- Khorat︠s︡iĭ --- Khorat︠s︡iĭ Flak, Kvint --- Orazio Flacco, Quinto --- הוראציוס --- הורטיוס --- Odes - History and criticism --- Horace - Knowledge - Literature --- Catullus, Gaius Valerius - Influence --- Virgil - In literature --- Rome - In literature --- Marone, Publio Virgilio --- Vegio, Maffeo