Editorial: Princeton University Press
Colección: Martin Classical Lectures
Número de páginas: 352 págs.
Fecha de edición: 26-09-2023
EAN: 9780691229621
ISBN: 978-0-691-22962-1
Precio (sin IVA): 46,80 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 48,67 €
A luminous work of scholarship by one of today’s leading classicists, this book highlights the importance of ancient myths not as timeless stories frozen in the past but as lenses through which to view our own artistic, cultural, and political moment in a new light. This incisive book demonstrates how, whether as the hero of these screen adaptations or as a peripheral character in male-dominated adventures, the mythic Helen has become symbolic of the perceived dangers of superhuman beauty and transgressive erotic agency.