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100 1 $aAustin, Norman.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88235231
245 10 $aHelen of Troy and her shameless phantom /$cNorman Austin.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c1994.
300 $axiv, 223 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aMyth and poetics
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.
505 0 $aForeword / Gregory Nagy -- Pt. I. The Traditional Helen. 1. The Helen of the Iliad. 2. Sappho's Helen and the Problem of the Text -- Pt. II. The Revised Helen. 3. The Helen of the Odyssey. 4. Stesichorus and His Palinode. 5. Herodotus and Helen in Egypt. 6. Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision.
520 $aLike the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy but remained blameless while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy.
520 8 $aComparing the functions of contradictory images of Helen, Austin helps to clarify the problematic relation between beauty and honor and between ugliness and shame in ancient Greece.
520 8 $aAustin first discusses the canonical account of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Helen as the archetype of woman without shame. He next considers different versions of Helen in the Homeric tradition. Among these, he shows how Sappho presents Helen as an icon of absolute beauty while she defends her own preference of eros over honor and her choice of woman as the object of desire.
520 8 $aAustin then turns to the three major authors who repudiated the traditional Helen of Troy - the lyric poet Stesichorus and the dramatist Euripides, who embraced the alternative myth of Helen's phantom; and the historian Herodotus, who claimed to have found in Egypt a Helen story that dispenses with both Helen and the phantom.
520 8 $aAustin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, but none that endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition.
650 0 $aGreek literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105403
600 00 $aHelen,$cof Troy, Queen of Sparta$xIn literature.
650 0 $aTrojan War$xLiterature and the war.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113025
830 0 $aMyth and poetics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86724594
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852 00 $bglx$hPA3015.R5$iH372 1994