Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which Helen?s story has been told and re–told from the ancient world to the present day. In this wide–ranging literary biography, Laurie Maguire analyzes ongoing debates about Helen?s sexual culpability, as seen through the prism of society?s evolving attitudes to issues such as beauty and rape. The aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth are also considered, yet through it all, we see how Helen of Troy?s contradictory legacy has transcended the ages and endured in literature. Works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare and others are explored, as well as Helen?s resurgent popularity in a surprising variety of modern novels, plays, and films. In an engaging and original new work filled with scholarly insights, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great...