Stealing Helen : The Myth of the Abducted Wife in Comparative Perspective.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 "THE ABDUCTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL WIFE" AS INTERNATIONAL TALE -- 1 Typology in Folklore Studies -- 2 The Concept of Type -- 3 The Motif -- 4 The Emic and the Etic -- 5 From the Emic to the Etic: A Yupik Folktale -- 6 The Deconstructive Point of View -- 7 Variant and Version -- 8 The Ontological Point of View -- 9 The Historical Basis of an Ontology of the Type -- 10 How Old Are Folktales? -- 10.1 Proverb and Fable: Oral Wisdom Literature in Antiquity -- 11 Morphology and Structuralism -- 12 Typological Status of "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife" -- 13 Motifs of "The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife" -- 13.1 Birth or Origin -- 13.1.1 Swan Maiden -- 13.2 Childhood and Marriage -- 13.3 Perilous Beauty of the Wife -- 13.4 Abductor -- 13.5 Abduction -- 13.6 Recovery -- 13.7 Fate of the Abductor -- 13.8 Reunion of Husband and Wife -- 13.8.1 Orpheus -- 14 The Syntagma -- 15 Methodological Reflections -- 2 DIOSCURI -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Abduction of Helen by Theseus and Peirithoüs -- 3 Indo-European Cognates -- 4 The Caucasus -- 5 The Baltic Egg -- 6 Cults of Helen and the Dioscuri -- 7 The Name Helen and the Nature of Names -- 8 An Indo-European "Abduction" -- 8.1 The Abduction in Indo-European Epic -- 8.2 The Three Functions of Georges Dumézil and Trojan Myth -- 9 The Indo-European "Abduction" and the Question of Origins -- 10 Conclusion -- 3 HELEN MYTH -- 1 Parentage, Birth, Siblings -- 2 Childhood -- 3 Wooing of Helen and Marriage to Menelaus -- 4 Motherhood -- 5 Paris -- 6 Abduction -- 6.1 The Abduction in Art -- 7 Consequences in Sparta of Helen's Abduction -- 8 Stay in Egypt and Eidōlon -- 9 Helen at Troy -- 10 Recovery of Helen by Menelaus -- 10.1 The Trojan Horse. 10.2 Helen's Role in Her Recovery -- 10.3 Menelaus's Unhappy and Happy Reunions with Helen -- 10.4 Helen Bares Her Breasts? -- 10.5 Himation -- 10.6 To the Ships, with His Hand on Her Wrist -- 10.7 Reflections on the Reunions -- 11 Return of Menelaus and Helen to Sparta -- 12 After the Return -- 13 Death of Helen -- 14 Comparison of Myth of Helen with "Abduction" Type -- 4 HYPOSTASES OF HELEN -- 1 The Cult at Platanistas -- 2 Helen Dendritis -- 3 Cult at Therapnē -- 3.1 Herodotus's Designation of Helen: "the goddess" (ή θεόϛ, 6.61.3) -- 4 Conclusion on Cults -- 5 The Cults and the Indo-European Goddess -- 6 Helen as Fictional -- 7 The Discovery of a Real Helen -- 7.1 Self Ancient and Modern -- 7.2 The Discovery of the Personality of Helen -- 8 Conclusion -- 5 HELEN IN THE FIFTH CENTURY AND AFTER -- 1 Helen in the Fifth Century -- 1.1 Herodotus -- 1.2 Thucydides -- 1.3 Pindar -- 1.4 Helen in Spartan Charter Myth -- 1.5 Consequences of Social Memory -- 1.6 Figure of Reference -- 1.7 Helen as Figure of Song -- 2 Helen from the Fourth Century to Goethe -- 2.1 Pythagorean Helen -- 2.2 Simon Magus -- 2.3 Faust -- 3 Roman Reception of the Helen Myth and the First Fictional Helen -- 3.1 The Origin of Fiction in Antiquity -- 3.2 The Fictive and the Fictional -- 3.3 A Fictive Helen: Ovid, Heroides 16-17 -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
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