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She’s been called the most beautiful woman on earth. She became the face that launched a thousand ships. She has been blamed for starting the Trojan War, a war that brought death and suffering to thousands. Helen of Troy.
She is a warning of the terrible power that boundless beauty can weald. A reminder that desire can prove stronger than duty. It’s the oldest story of them all, boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Boy and girl get into big trouble. Lots of boys fight over the girl. And the good guy wins out in the end. It is no surprise it has been lapped up down the centuries. It is the perfect male fantasy. Helen is exquisite and she is an exquisite agent of extermination.
Helen’s story is important and irresistible. Because it deals with that strange and worrying combination of pleasure and pain, sex and violence, love and hate. But it is also not just a story.
Helen and the Trojan War have become epic and iconic, but if you look at them closely, they are very human. The drama starts with a messy love affair and it ends up in a bloody and disastrous conflict. I think that Helen’s tale is rooted in bronze age reality and that if you look for her here in the Eastern Mediterranean landscape, you will find that most of the ancient stories are much closer to history than they are to myth. And it is in that world, in what is now modern Greece and Turkey, that I am going to look for her. To separate fact from fiction. To find the real powerful queens who lived here three and a half thousand years ago. My journey will take me right across the Eastern Mediterranean. To try to find Helen, I am going to explore the magnificent palaces that controlled this region in the late bronze age. I will look into the rituals that placed women at the heart of religion. I will follow Helen’s journey,
looking again at the myths that have helped create her image through the ages, investigating the wars that were fought in her name. I will be looking for clues in archaeology, manuscripts and art. Searching for that hidden Helen, one of the real prehistoric queens who inhabited this rich and savage time.
My journey in search of Helen begins at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Most women are written out of history, Helen is written in.
She was an inspiration for the earliest masterpieces of European literature, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. These are some of the largest fragments of Homer from antiquity, they are close on 2000 years old. And they have been beautifully written on papyrus sheets in Greek capitals. Originally these papyrus sheets would all have been joined together in one long roll about 30 foot long. It is book two of the Iliad, you can still make out the names of some of the great personalities from the epic, here we have Achilles the god-like hero. There is Aphrodite, the goddess of love and here is Hector Priamedes, Hector the firstborn son of Priam. But this little scrap, nes is the last syllable of Helenes, the name of Helen. So what we are looking at is the first time that Helen enters the written record.
She’s been called the most beautiful woman on earth. She became the face that launched a thousand ships. She has been blamed for starting the Trojan War, a war that brought death and suffering to thousands. Helen of Troy.
She is a warning of the terrible power that boundless beauty can weald. A reminder that desire can prove stronger than duty. It’s the oldest story of them all, boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Boy and girl get into big trouble. Lots of boys fight over the girl. And the good guy wins out in the end. It is no surprise it has been lapped up down the centuries. It is the perfect male fantasy. Helen is exquisite and she is an exquisite agent of extermination.
Helen’s story is important and irresistible. Because it deals with that strange and worrying combination of pleasure and pain, sex and violence, love and hate. But it is also not just a story.
Helen and the Trojan War have become epic and iconic, but if you look at them closely, they are very human. The drama starts with a messy love affair and it ends up in a bloody and disastrous conflict. I think that Helen’s tale is rooted in bronze age reality and that if you look for her here in the Eastern Mediterranean landscape, you will find that most of the ancient stories are much closer to history than they are to myth. And it is in that world, in what is now modern Greece and Turkey, that I am going to look for her. To separate fact from fiction. To find the real powerful queens who lived here three and a half thousand years ago. My journey will take me right across the Eastern Mediterranean. To try to find Helen, I am going to explore the magnificent palaces that controlled this region in the late bronze age. I will look into the rituals that placed women at the heart of religion. I will follow Helen’s journey,
looking again at the myths that have helped create her image through the ages, investigating the wars that were fought in her name. I will be looking for clues in archaeology, manuscripts and art. Searching for that hidden Helen, one of the real prehistoric queens who inhabited this rich and savage time.
My journey in search of Helen begins at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Most women are written out of history, Helen is written in.
She was an inspiration for the earliest masterpieces of European literature, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. These are some of the largest fragments of Homer from antiquity, they are close on 2000 years old. And they have been beautifully written on papyrus sheets in Greek capitals. Originally these papyrus sheets would all have been joined together in one long roll about 30 foot long. It is book two of the Iliad, you can still make out the names of some of the great personalities from the epic, here we have Achilles the god-like hero. There is Aphrodite, the goddess of love and here is Hector Priamedes, Hector the firstborn son of Priam. But this little scrap, nes is the last syllable of Helenes, the name of Helen. So what we are looking at is the first time that Helen enters the written record.
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Date: 2008-06-17 12:16 pm (UTC)PBS Presents HELEN OF TROY, Premiering October 12, With Host Bettany Hughes, Author and Historian From England's Oxford University - 'Every Greek man is still in love with Helen,' says Hughes
Автор Беттани Хьюджис из Оксфорд. универа.
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