Stealing Helen - Lowell Edmunds
The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
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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 ab...
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2015 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 448 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691165122 ISBN-13: 9780691165127Koop dit boek tweedehands
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