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Type: documentary

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Status: disliked

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Author: Bettany Hughes

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Tags: historiography helen-of-troy image

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Description: Now British historian Hughes investigates the history and myth of Helen, using a mix of archeologicalNow British historian Hughes investigates the history and myth of Helen, using a mix of archeological evidence, literary sources and personal observation to flesh out this archetypal creature. Acknowledging that Helen has long served as a lens through which male thinkers have projected their views of women, Hughes traces the uses to which the ancient princess has been put, from the prehistoric Mycenaean world, in which she would have been admired for her beauty and strength, through the Elizabethan age, when she was reviled as a demonic harlot....

2005-12-22