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1	Nobody's Princess more books like this by Esther M Friesner add to wishlist Nebua Award-winning author Esther Friesner deftly weaves together history and myth as she takes a new look at the girl who will become Helen of Troy. The resulting story offers up adventure, humor, and a fresh and engaging heroine. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Memoirs of Helen of Troy more books like this by Amanda Elyot add to wishlist As despised as she was desired, Helen of Troy is one of history's most notorious women. In this groundbreaking and richly dramatic novel, the familiar story of passion and violence is told from a new perspective: that of Helen herself. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The private life of Helen of Troy more books like this by John Erskine add to wishlist Helen's Return; The Younger Generation; Their Elders; Death and Birth; Helen's Beauty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War more books like this by Clemence McLaren add to wishlist A fictional look at the women associated with the Trojan War. Helen tells of how she feels her beauty is a burden and delves into her elopement with Paris. Then Cassandra takes up the story revealing that she had visions which predicted the war. Other women of the city recount how the war effected them--exploring not only their petty jealousies, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Goddess of Yesterday more books like this by Caroline B Cooney add to wishlist A brave, resourceful 12-year-old girl named Anaxandra is the focus of this vivid re-invention of the gripping tale of Helen of Troy. Kidnapped at the age of six by King Nicander and taken to a tiny island far from home, Anaxandra is the lone person left alive years later, after a pirate attack. At Medusa's bidding, she impersonates his daughter, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore more books like this by Bettany Hughes add to wishlist As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject. Hesiod, a poet born around 700BC and one of the first named authors in history, called her 'the most beautiful woman in the world' and the description endured. Even though we have no contemporary representations of her, this Bronze Age princess is still seen as a paradigm of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
7	Tiger at the gates, a play in two acts. more books like this by Jean Giraudoux add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $9.98!
8	Inside the Walls of Troy more books like this by Clemence McLaren add to wishlist A fictional look at the women associated with the Trojan War. Helen tells of how she feels her beauty is a burden and delves into her elopement with Paris. Then Cassandra takes up the story revealing that she had visions which predicted the war. Other women of the city recount how the war effected them--exploring not only their petty jealousies, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions
9	La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu more books like this by Jean Giraudoux add to wishlist see all copies from $2.06! new only from $35.76! \| first editions
10	Helen in Egypt more books like this by Hilda Doolittle, H D add to wishlist This is the posthumously published last volume of H. D.'s poetry. see all copies from $2.68! new only from $10.26! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Helen more books like this by Euripides add to wishlist A Helen who has always been faithful to her husband Menelaus; who never went to Troy, but was carried off to Egypt, where she remains throughout the Trojan War; who is falsely blamed for destruction in which she had no part, or rather a part in name only - this is the paradoxical heroine of "Euripides' Helen". The story is not his invention: Helen ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood more books like this by Laurie E Maguire add to wishlist "Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood" is a comprehensive literary biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her story has been told and retold in almost every century from the ancient world to the modern day. It takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great influence on ... see all copies from $20.53! new only from $23.45! \| signed copies \| SVS
13 view cover	The Boy Who Cried Horse more books like this by Terry Deary, Helen Flook (Illustrator) add to wishlist In Troy in 1180 B.C., Acheron, storyteller in the palace of Paris and Helen, is so well-known as a liar that when a wooden horse left by the enemy Greek army rouses his suspicion and he learns truth about the deadly threat it holds, no one will believe him. Includes facts about Troy and its destruction. see all copies from $11.99! new only from $11.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	Helen: Myth, Legend, and the Culture of Misogyny more books like this by Robert Emmett Meagher add to wishlist Helen's face not only launched a thousand ships, it also launched countless books about Helen herself. These books have idealized, worshiped, slandered, celebrated, constructed, and deconstructed her. The present work draws on the most reliable of these books and offers a portrait of Helen as the archetypal woman of Western culture. This is the ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $13.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom more books like this by Norman Austin add to wishlist see all copies from $23.15! new only from $24.41! \| first editions
16 view cover	Euripides' Escape-Tragedies: A Study of Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigenia Among the Taurians more books like this by Matthew Wright add to wishlist This is the first major critical study of three late plays of Euripides: Helen, Andromeda and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Matthew Wright offers a sustained reading of the plays, arguing that they are a thematically connected trilogy. He re-examines central themes such as myth, geography, cultural identity, philosophy, religion, and (crucially) ... see all copies from $50.00! new only from $65.85!
17 view cover	La Guerre de Troie N'Aura Pas Lieu La Guerre de Troie N'Aura Pas Lieu more books like this by Jean Giraudoux, Larousse Editorial (Editor) add to wishlist Written in 1935, an exploration of the looming threat of World War II, set against the backdrop of the familiar story of the Trojan War see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.85!
18 view cover	Euripides: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes more books like this by Professor David Kovacs (Editor), Euripides add to wishlist Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. In this volume, David Kovacs presents an edited Greek text and a faithful and deftly worded translation of three plays. For his Helen the poet employs an alternative history in which a virtuous Helen never went ... see all copies from $24.00! new only from $24.00!
19	Euripides: Helen, the Trojan Women, the Bacchae more books like this by Euripides, Neil Curry (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $4.06! first editions
20 view cover	The Meaning of Helen: In Search of an Ancient Icon more books like this by Robert Emmet Meagher add to wishlist -- Latin text, spaced with four lines below each line, for working out translations (as homework, in-class can rections, for review); to note figures of speech, points of grammatical interest -- Right-hand column for additional notes/vocabulary for special review -- 3-hole punched -- Separate worksheet packets for each An Latin author see all copies from $53.78! new only from $53.78!
21 view cover	Helen's Passage more books like this by Diana Concannon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.63! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Helen/Euripides more books like this by Euripides, Robert E Meagher (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
23	To Follow the Goddess more books like this by Linda Cargill add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $41.75!
24	According to Helen more books like this by Florence Wallin add to wishlist Helen of Troy, the woman behind the "face that launched a thousand ships, " tells her own story after 3000 years. An astonishing novel based on archaeology brings Helen to life as an appealing human being, as well as a mythical ideal. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies
25	Helen of Troy: Woman & Goddess more books like this by Jack Lindsay add to wishlist see all copies from $35.95!

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