Helen of Troy [in verse.].
- ISBN-10
- 1601290411
- ISBN-13
- 9781601290410
- Pages
- 196
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1882
- Publisher
- Floating Press
- Author
- Andrew Lang
Description
Andrew Lang was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. In Helen of Troy, a story in rhyme of the fortunes of Helen, the theory that she was an unwilling victim of the Gods has been preferred. Many of the descriptions of manners are versified from the Iliad and the Odyssey. The description of the events after the death of Hector, and the account of the sack of Troy, is chiefly borrowed from Quintus Smyrnaeus. The character and history of Helen of Troy have bee.
