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Paperback Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective Book
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ISBN: 0691202338

ISBN13: 9780691202334

Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective

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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,...

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