Helen in Egypt [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0811205444 ISBN 13: 9780811205443

Casa editrice: New Directions, 1974

Riassunto

The fabulous beauty of Helen of Troy is legendary. But some say that Helen was never in Troy, that she had been conveyed by Zeus to Egypt, and that Greeks and Trojans alike fought for an illusion. A fifty-line fragment by the poet Stesichorus of Sicily (c. 640-555 B.C.), what survives of his Pallinode, tells us almost all we know of this other Helen, and from it H. D. wove her book-length poem. Yet Helen in Egypt is not a simple retelling of the Egyptian legend but a recreation of the many myths surrounding Helen, Paris, Achilles, Theseus, and other figures of Greek tradition, fused with the mysteries of Egyptian hermeticism.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: New Directions
• Data di pubblicazione: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0811205444
• ISBN 13: 9780811205443
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304