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Stealing Helen : The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective /
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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- INTRODUCTION; 1. "THE ABDUCTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL WIFE AS INTERNATIONAL TALE"; 1.1 Typology in Folklore Studies; 1.2 The Concept of Type; 1.3 The Motif; 1.4 The Emic and the Etic; 1.5 From the Emic to the Etic: A Yupik Folktale; 1.6 The Deconstructive Point of View; 1.7 Variant and Version; 1.8 The Ontological Point of View; 1.9 The Historical Basis of an Ontology of the Type; 1.10 How Old Are Folktales?; 1.10.1 Proverb and Fable: Oral wisdom literature in Antiquity; 1.11 Morphology and Structuralism; 1.12 Typological Status of "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife"; 1.13 Motifs of "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife"; 1.13.1 Birth or Origin; 1.13.1.1 Swan Maiden; 1.13.2 Childhood and Marriage; 1.13.3 Perilous Beauty of the Wife; 1.13.4 Abductor; 1.13.5 Abduction; 1.13.6 Recovery; 1.13.7 Fate of the Abductor; 1.13.8 Reunion of Husband and Wife; 1.13.8.1 Orpheus; 1.14 The Syntagma; 1.15 Methodological Reflections;
- 2. DIOSCURI; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Abduction of Helen by Theseus and Peirithoüs; 2.3 Indo-European Cognates; 2.4 The Caucasus; 2.5 The Baltic Egg; 2.6 Cults of Helen and the Dioscuri; 2.7 The Name Helen and the Nature of Names; 2.8 An Indo-European "Abduction"; 2.8.1 The Abduction in Indo-European Epic; 2.8.2 The Three Functions of Georges Dumézil and Trojan Myth; 2.9 The Indo-European "Abduction" and the Question of Origins; 2.10 Conclusion;
- 3. HELEN MYTH; 3.1 Parentage, Birth, Siblings; 3.2 Childhood; 3.3 Wooing of Helen and Marriage to Menelaus; 3.4 Motherhood; 3.5 Paris; 3.6 Abduction; 3.6.1 The Abduction in Art; 3.7 Consequences in Sparta of Helen's Abduction; 3.8 Stay in Egypt and Eidōlon; 3.9 Helen at Troy; 3.10 Recovery of Helen by Menelaus; 3.10.1 The Trojan Horse; 3.10.2 Helen's Role in Her Recovery; 3.10.3 Menelaus's Unhappy and Happy Reunions with Helen; 3.10.4 Helen Bares Her Breasts?; 3.10.5 Himation; 3.10.6 To the Ships, with His Hand on Her Wrist; 3.10.7 Reflections on the Reunions3.11 Return of Menelaus and Helen to Sparta3.12 After the Return; 3.13 Death of Helen; 3.14 Comparison of Myth of Helen with "Abduction" Type;
- 5. HELEN IN THE FIFTH CENTURY AND AFTER; 5.1 Helen in the Fifth Century; 5.1.1 Herodotus; 5.1.2 Thucydides; 5.1.3 Pindar; 5.1.4 Helen in Spartan Charter Myth; 5.1.5 Consequences of Social Memory; 5.1.6 Figure of Reference; 5.1.7 Helen as Figure of Song; 5.2 Helen from the Fourth Century to Goethe; 5.2.1 Pythagorean Helen; 5.2.2 Simon Magus; 5.2.3 Faust; 5.3 Roman Reception of the Helen Myth and the First Fictional Helen; 5.3.1 The Origin of Fiction in Antiquity; 5.3.2 The Fictive and the Fictional; 5.3.3 A Fictive Helen: Ovid, Heroides; 5.4 Another Fictive Helen (Lucian, True History 2) and a Fictive Hermione (Colluthus); Conclusion; Appendix 1: Examples of "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife"; Appendix 2: Inventory of Art Objects.