Helen of Troy
Links compiled by Tracy Marks,
Greek Mythology instructor in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, leader of the online
Classica discussion group and Path
of the Heroine Greek mythology workshops.
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Helen of Troy, was previously Helen of Sparta. The most beautiful woman in ancient Greece, was married to Menelaus, king of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon. However Paris, Prince of Troy was awarded Helen by Aphrodite, as a result of choosing Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess at the Judgment of Paris. He then abducted Helen and brought her to Troy. Because all the previous suitors of Helen had pledged their loyalty to her chosen husband (and perhaps because Greece was eager to lay claims to the rich mineral resources of Troy and its enviable trading position as a gateway to Asia), a large army sailed to Troy to battle the Trojans and reclaim her. For ten years, Helen of Sparta, now Helen of Troy, now lived in Troy, while the Greeks and Trojans battled in the Trojan War. Throughout history, Helen has been blamed for the Trojan war - as Pandora was blamed for the opening the box that released the ills that beset mankind, ands Eve was blamed for Adam's eating of the apple, and the expulsion from Eden. But was Helen at fault? Did she willing elope with Paris, or was she kidnapped against her will? And was not Paris truly the perpetrator of the Trojan War, as a result of abducting the most prized woman of Greece at a time in which Greek/Trojan relations were tenuous at best? Or did the fault reside in Priam, king of Troy, for not returning her to the Greeks when they demanded her return? |
Helen of Troy Mini-Series
The USA Network
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/376/376701p1.html
http://www.aboutrufus.com/helen_of_troy.htm
http://www.pcpmalta.com/news/update2.htm
Helen's Lament poem by Tracy Marks
http://www.webwinds.com/thalassa/helenslament.htm
HELEN OF TROY LINKS
Conflicting
Views on Helen: Helen at Greek Mythology Link
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/KOp.html
(Don't miss this one!)
* http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Helen.html
(the best Greek mythology site on the Net!)
About Helen
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/abouthelen.htm
Helen of Troy at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy
Helen and her Impact
http://www.fjkluth.com/helen.html
http://www.wic.org/artwork/helent.htm
Helen of Troy
http://www.midthun.net/helenof.htm
http://www.hellenism.net/eng/helen.htm
http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/helen_of_troy.htm
Women's History Helen of Troy Links
http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/helenoftroy/
Deborah
Lyons: Catalog of Heroines:
http://pup.princeton.edu/books/lyons/appendix.html
Mortal Women of
the Trojan War (Helen)
http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/helen.html
Helen of Troy: Heroine or Goddess?
http://whitedragon.org.uk/articles/troy.htm
Helen of Troy Lookup at Perseus (long url!)
Who Really Launched 1000 Ships? (Aphrodite's Role)
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020100a.htm
Helen of Troy
in Poetry, Literature and Film
Sarah
Teasdale's Helen of Troy poem:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/books/teasdale/helen01.html
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Sara_Teasdale/helen_of_troy_Helen_of_Troy.htm
http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/helen10.htm
Euripides' Helen
http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/helen.html
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0100
More at: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/helen.htm
http://www.4literature.net/Euripides/Helen/
http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/abstracts/wheeler.html
And Euripides on Helen in Egypt:
http://hydra.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+hel.+1
Helen to Paris letter, Ovid's Heroides
(in process of translation)
http://english.edgewood.edu/heroides/
From Helen by H.D.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/poem1/blp_hd_helen.htm
Robert
Wise's Helen of Troy Movie:
Helen of Troy
http://www.afionline.org/wise/films/helen_of_troy/hot.html
(Film pictures on this page are borrowed from this site)
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Directed by: Robert Wise
Starring Rossana Podesta as Helen, Jack Sernas as Paris, Stanley Baker as
Achilles, Niall MacGinnis as Menelaus, Cedric Hardwicke as Priam, Robert
Douglas as Agamemnon, Torin Thatcher as Ulysses, Harry Andrews as
Hector, Janette Scott as Cassandra, Brigitte Bardot as Andraste
And please do read my Helen of Troy poem, Helen's Lament!
Helen of Troy Paintings
Polygnotos:
Helen, A Herald and Aithra:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cl135/Students/Glynnis_Fawkes/Paus2.html
Other Helen of Troy images
(previously at http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www.art):
Makron: Abduction of Helen
Fra Angelico: Helen
David: Paris and Helen
Reni: Abduction of Helen
Francken: L'Enlevement of Helen
Rossetti: Helen of Troy
Moreau: Helen Under the Walls of Troy
Heemskerk: Helen
Helen of Troy Books available at Amazon.com
To Follow the Goddess: Helen of Troy (Cargill)
Helen of Troy
and Her Shameless Phantom
Inside the
Walls of Troy: The Women Who Lived the Trojan War (young adult)
Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang
Goddess of Yesterday
Helen: Myth,
Legend and the Culture of Misogyny (Meagher) Concannon,
Helen's Passage (1998) Helen in Egypt
After the Trojan War: Three Plays
According to Helen
see also reviews
at Barnes and Noble
Metamorphoses
of Helen: Authority, Difference and the Epic
Helen by Euripides
The Meaning of Helen: In Search of An Ancient Icon
Her Kind:
Stories of Women from Greek Mythology
Women in Greek
Myth (Lefkowitz)
Gender and
Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Lyons)
The
Husbands: Book 3 and 4 of the Iliad
Grafting Helen: The Abduction of the Classical Past
Helen of Troy in Fiction
H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang, The World's Desire (1890)
John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925)
Edward Lucas White, Helen (1925)
Eva H. Hansen, Scandal in Troy (1956)
Kevin Mathews, Helen of Troy (1965)
Miranda Seymour, The Goddess (1979)
And please do read my Helen of Troy poem, Helen's Lament!
links compiled by Tracy Marks
(alias Torrey Philemon at Ancient Sites/Ancient Worlds)
Arlington,
Massachusetts
go back to Torrey Philemon's
Greek Mythology Resources
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Web page created October 14, 1998
Update October 15, 2006
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