Helen of Troy
Links compiled by Tracy Marks
, Greek Mythology instructor at
the Cambridge Center for Adult Education
, leader of the online
Classica discussion group and Path of the Heroine Greek mythology
workshops. More Greek myth articles and links here
.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Helen of Troy Mini-Series
The USA Network April 20-21 2003
The Making of the Epic April 14
Cable in the Classroom Documentary
Tuesday, March 25 and Tuesday, April 1
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/376/376701p1.html
http://www.usanetwork.com/movies/helenoftroy/
http://www.usanetwork.com/cableinclassroom/helenoftroy/
http://www.aboutrufus.com/helen_of_troy.htm
http://www.pcpmalta.com/news/update2.htm
Helen's Lament poem by Tracy Marks
http://www.webwinds.com/thalassa/helenslament.htm
HELEN OF TROY LINKS
Classics Helen
Page:
http://www.princeton.edu/~rhwebb/helen.html
Helen-Encyclopedia
Mythica:
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/articles/h/helen.html
Helen:
Greek Mythology Link
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Helen.html
Conflicting
Views on Helen:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/KOp.html
(Don't miss this one!)
About Helen
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hd/abouthelen.htm
Helen and her Impact
http://apk.net/~fjk/helen.html
Helen of Troy
http://www.wic.org/artwork/helent.htm
Helen of Troy
http://www.midthun.net/helenof.htm
Ancient Greek Myths: Helen of Troy
http://www.hellenism.net/eng/helen.htm
Helen
of Troy: The Trojan War
http://www.calliope.free-online.co.uk/abduct/helpar.htm
Perseus
lookup on Helen:
http://hydra.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=encyclopedia+Helen
Deborah
Lyons: Catalog of Heroines:
http://pup.princeton.edu/books/lyons/appendix.html
Mortal Women of
the Trojan War (Helen)
http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/helen.html
Helen of Troy: Heroine or Goddess?
http://whitedragon.org.uk/articles/troy.htm
Helen and the
Dios Boyle (pdf article)
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/american_journal_of_philology/117.1mayer.pdf
Helen of Troy Lookup at Perseus
Poetry, Literature and Films
Sarah
Teasdale's Helen of Troy:
http://www.dc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/handouts/helen.html
http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/helen10.htm
Euripides' Helen:
http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/helen.html
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0100
More at: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/helen.htm
http://www.4literature.net/Euripides/Helen/
And Euripides on Helen in Egypt:
http://hydra.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+hel.+1
Helen to Paris letter from Ovid's Heroides
http://www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk/Webworks/Website/Heroides16-21.htm
Production of Helen
http://www.usask.ca/antharch/cnea/abstracts/wheeler.html
Robert
Wise's Helen of Troy Movie:
Helen of Troy
http://www.afionline.org/wise/films/helen_of_troy/hot.html
(Film pictures on this page are "borrowed" from this site)
Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Directed by: Robert Wise
Starring Rossana Podesta as Helen, Jack Sernas as Paris, Stanley Baker as
Achilles, Niall MacGinnis as Menelaus, Cedric Hardwicke as Priam, Robert
Douglas as Agamemnon, Torin Thatcher as Ulysses, Harry Andrews as
Hector, Janette Scott as Cassandra, Brigitte Bardot as Andraste
And please do read my Helen of Troy poem, Helen's Lament!
Helen Paintings
Polygnotos:
Helen, A Herald and Aithra:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cl135/Students/Glynnis_Fawkes/Paus2.html
Makron:
Abduction of Helen
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/gr/makron_abduction_helen.gif
Fra
Angelico: Helen
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/re/Fra_ang_Abduction_helen.GIF
David: Paris
and Helen
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mo/David_paris_and_helen.GIF
Reni: Abduction
of Helen
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/bar/reni_abduction_of_helen.GIF
Francken:
L'Enlevement of Helen
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/re/francken_helen.gif
Rossetti:
Helen of Troy
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mo/Rossetti_helen_of_troy.GIF
Moreau: Helen Under
the Walls of Troy
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mo/Moreau_helen.GIF
Heemskerk: Helen
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/bar/Heemskerk_Helene.GIF
Helen Books available at Amazon.com
To Follow the
Goddess: Helen of Troy (Cargill)
Helen of Troy
and Her Shameless Phantom
According to Helen
Inside the
Walls of Troy: The Women Who Lived the Trojan War (young adult)
Helen: Myth,
Legend and the Culture of Misogyny (Meagher)
see also reviews
at Barnes and Noble
Concannon,
Helen's Passage (1998)
Metamorphoses
of Helen: Authority, Difference and the Epic
Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang
Goddess of Yesterday
Helen by Euripides
After the Trojan War: Three Plays
Helen in Egypt
The Meaning of Helen: In Search of An Ancient Icon
Helen Never Went to Troy
Her Kind:
Stories of Women from Greek Mythology
Women in Greek
Myth (Lefkowitz)
Gender and
Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Lyons)
The
Husbands: Book 3 and 4 of the Iliad
Grafting Helen: The Abduction of the Classical Past
ALSO IN FICTION:
H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang, The World's Desire (1890)
John Erskine, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925)
Edward Lucas White, Helen (1925)
Eva H. Hansen, Scandal in Troy (1956)
Kevin Mathews, Helen of Troy (1965)
Miranda Seymour, The Goddess (1979)
And please do read my Helen of Troy poem, Helen's Lament!
links compiled by Tracy Marks
(alias Torrey Philemon at Ancient Sites/Ancient Worlds)
Arlington,
Massachusetts
go back to Torrey Philemon's
Greek Mythology Resources
go to Ancient Greece and Troy Maps
go to Iliad Terminology: The Greek Language
go to Odyssey link
pages
Web page created October 14, 1998
Update March 20, 2003
This page is now at http://www.webwinds.com/thalassa/helen.htm
Please update your links! The geocities web site will be
discontinued later in 2003.
Since April 3, 1997, you are
visitor 
