Title Stealing Helen : the myth of the abducted wife in comparative perspective / Lowell Edmunds

Published Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Series Book collections on Project MUSE UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature Supplement Contents 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; 880-01 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 880-01/Grek 4. HYPOSTASES OF HELEN; 4.1 The Cult at Platanistas; 4.2 Helen Dendritis; 4.3 Cult at Therapnē; 4.3.1 Herodotus's Designation of Helen: "the goddess" (ή θεός, 6.61.3); 4.4 Conclusion on Cults; 4.5 The Cults and the Indo-European Goddess; 4.6 Helen as Fictional; 4.7 The Discovery of a Real Helen; 4.7.1 Self Ancient and Modern; 4.7.2 The Discovery of the Personality of Helen; 4.8 Conclusion; Summary 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 pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became known. Investigating Helen's status in ancient Greek sources, the book argues that if Helen was just one trope of the abducted wife, the quest for Helen's origin in Spartan cult can be abandoned, as can the quest for an Indo-European goddess who grew into the Helen myth Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta -- In literature SUBJECT Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta -- In literature Helen, of Troy, Queen of Sparta fast Subject Abduction in literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Abduction in literature Literature Kidnappningar i litteraturen. Form Electronic book LC no. 2014042379 ISBN 140087422X 9781400874224

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