Helen of Troy
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Stealing Helen: The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective. By Lowell Edmunds. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 430. Hardcover, $49.50. ISBN 978-0-691-16512-7 Reviewed by Henry V. Bender, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia Fascination with the name, the person, and the myth of Helen is epic and universal. Inspirations, derivations,…
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This is definitely in the FWIW category, but there is some wheat among the chaff … from the Tribune (Pakistan): There is, in rural Mandi Bahauddin district, a few kilometres from Phalia town, a village marked as Helan in the Atlas of Pakistan. The ‘a’ is pronounced as in ‘father’ and the ending is nasal…
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