Lowell Edmunds: 2 books
Stealing Helen
The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
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...
by Lowell Edmunds
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
An indispensable guide to the myth of Oedipus this book is the first to analyze its long and varied history from ancient times to the modern day, and presented with an authoritative survey that considers Oedipus in art and music as well as in literature.
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