Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / / Norman Austin.
Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeri...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
MitwirkendeR: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Myth and Poetics
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9781501720703 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)515174 (OCoLC)1100440207 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Austin, Norman, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / Norman Austin. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2008 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Myth and Poetics Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Traditional Helen -- 1. The Helen of the Iliad -- 2. Sappho's Helen and the Problem of the Text -- Part II. The Revised Helen -- 3. The Helen of the Odyssey -- 4. Stesichorus and His Palinode -- 5. Herodotus and Helen in Egypt -- 6. Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision -- Glossary of Greek Terms -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy, but remained blameless, while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy. Comparing the functions of contradictory images of Helen, Austin helps to clarify the problematic relations between beauty and honor and between ugliness and shame in ancient Greece.Austin first discusses the canonical account of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Helen as the archetype of woman without shame. He next considers different versions of Helen in the Homeric tradition. Among these, he shows how Sappho presents Helen as an icon of absolute beauty while she defends her own preference of eros over honor and her choice of woman as the object of desire. Austin then turns to three major authors who repudiated the traditional Helen of Troy: the lyric poet Stesichorus and the dramatist Euripides, who embraced the alternative myth of Helen's phantom; and the historian Herodotus, who claimed to have found in Egypt a Helen story that dispenses with both Helen and the phantom. Austin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, though none have endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Greek literature History and criticism. Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature. Trojan War Literature and the war. Ancient History & Classical Studies. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. bisacsh Nagy, Gregory, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801429552 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720703 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501720703 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501720703/original |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Austin, Norman, Austin, Norman, |
spellingShingle |
Austin, Norman, Austin, Norman, Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / Myth and Poetics Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Traditional Helen -- 1. The Helen of the Iliad -- 2. Sappho's Helen and the Problem of the Text -- Part II. The Revised Helen -- 3. The Helen of the Odyssey -- 4. Stesichorus and His Palinode -- 5. Herodotus and Helen in Egypt -- 6. Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision -- Glossary of Greek Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
author_facet |
Austin, Norman, Austin, Norman, Nagy, Gregory, Nagy, Gregory, |
author_variant |
n a na n a na |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author2 |
Nagy, Gregory, Nagy, Gregory, |
author2_variant |
g n gn g n gn |
author2_role |
MitwirkendeR MitwirkendeR |
author_sort |
Austin, Norman, |
title |
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / |
title_full |
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / Norman Austin. |
title_fullStr |
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / Norman Austin. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / Norman Austin. |
title_auth |
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Traditional Helen -- 1. The Helen of the Iliad -- 2. Sappho's Helen and the Problem of the Text -- Part II. The Revised Helen -- 3. The Helen of the Odyssey -- 4. Stesichorus and His Palinode -- 5. Herodotus and Helen in Egypt -- 6. Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision -- Glossary of Greek Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
title_new |
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / |
title_sort |
helen of troy and her shameless phantom / |
series |
Myth and Poetics |
series2 |
Myth and Poetics |
publisher |
Cornell University Press, |
publishDate |
2018 |
physical |
1 online resource (240 p.) Issued also in print. |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Traditional Helen -- 1. The Helen of the Iliad -- 2. Sappho's Helen and the Problem of the Text -- Part II. The Revised Helen -- 3. The Helen of the Odyssey -- 4. Stesichorus and His Palinode -- 5. Herodotus and Helen in Egypt -- 6. Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision -- Glossary of Greek Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
isbn |
9781501720703 9783110536157 9780801429552 |
url |
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720703 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501720703 https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501720703/original |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
800 - Literature |
dewey-tens |
880 - Classical & modern Greek literatures |
dewey-ones |
880 - Hellenic literatures; classical Greek |
dewey-full |
880.9/351 |
dewey-sort |
3880.9 3351 |
dewey-raw |
880.9/351 |
dewey-search |
880.9/351 |
doi_str_mv |
10.7591/9781501720703 |
oclc_num |
1100440207 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT austinnorman helenoftroyandhershamelessphantom AT nagygregory helenoftroyandhershamelessphantom |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)515174 (OCoLC)1100440207 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
author2_original_writing_str_mv |
noLinkedField noLinkedField |
_version_ |
1770177082976894976 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>04726nam a22007335i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9781501720703</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20220302035458.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">220302t20182008nyu fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781501720703</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.7591/9781501720703</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)515174</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1100440207</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">nyu</subfield><subfield code="c">US-NY</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LIT004190</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">880.9/351</subfield><subfield code="2">20</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Austin, Norman, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom /</subfield><subfield code="c">Norman Austin.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Ithaca, NY : </subfield><subfield code="b">Cornell University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2018]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2008</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (240 p.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Myth and Poetics</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Illustrations -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Foreword -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Part I. The Traditional Helen -- </subfield><subfield code="t">1. The Helen of the Iliad -- </subfield><subfield code="t">2. Sappho's Helen and the Problem of the Text -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Part II. The Revised Helen -- </subfield><subfield code="t">3. The Helen of the Odyssey -- </subfield><subfield code="t">4. Stesichorus and His Palinode -- </subfield><subfield code="t">5. Herodotus and Helen in Egypt -- </subfield><subfield code="t">6. Euripides' Helen: The Final Revision -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Glossary of Greek Terms -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Bibliography -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy, but remained blameless, while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy. Comparing the functions of contradictory images of Helen, Austin helps to clarify the problematic relations between beauty and honor and between ugliness and shame in ancient Greece.Austin first discusses the canonical account of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Helen as the archetype of woman without shame. He next considers different versions of Helen in the Homeric tradition. Among these, he shows how Sappho presents Helen as an icon of absolute beauty while she defends her own preference of eros over honor and her choice of woman as the object of desire. Austin then turns to three major authors who repudiated the traditional Helen of Troy: the lyric poet Stesichorus and the dramatist Euripides, who embraced the alternative myth of Helen's phantom; and the historian Herodotus, who claimed to have found in Egypt a Helen story that dispenses with both Helen and the phantom. Austin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, though none have endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Greek literature</subfield><subfield code="x">History and criticism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Trojan War</subfield><subfield code="x">Literature and the war.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Ancient History & Classical Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Literary Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="700" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Nagy, Gregory, </subfield><subfield code="e">contributor.</subfield><subfield code="4">ctb</subfield><subfield code="4">https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110536157</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780801429552</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720703</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501720703</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501720703/original</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-053615-7 Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_CL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_CL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |