The Meaning of Helen. In Search of an Ancient Icon. - MEAGHER, R.E.,
in search of an ancient icon
KORTE INHOUD
'What makes Helen so engaging, so consequential? Like an ancient wall layered with millennia of graffiti, Helen preserves the human record. Her story and our story are not to be plied apart. She is woman as we have idealized, worshipped, slandered, clebrated, constructed and deconstructed her. Helen, for better or for worse, in all het metamorphoses, represents the complex, intact fossil record of woman in western culture. The story of Helen is the story of woman. (Editor's information). 'M.'s goal is to trace the misogyny of Greek culture to its 'theoretical demise' (p. 4) in Euripides' Helen. M.'s prose is filled with wonderful turns of phrase and a flowing yet lighthearted style that makes it a pleasure to read. The strength of this work lies in its insightful interpretation of Hesiod and Euripides; its weakness in its attempt to connect Helen's representation in Greek culture to the wholesale rejection of a Neolithic matriarchal culture that acknowledged the all-encompassing power of the feminine principl...
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2002Uitgever: Bolchazy-Carducci191 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0865165106ISBN-13: 9780865165106Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Wauconda, 2002. (Reprint ed.1995). VIII,191p. Paperback. [New] [Auteur: MEAGHER, R.E.,] [Uitgever: Bolchazy-Carducci] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: The Meaning of Helen. In Search of an Ancient Icon.]
