Stealing Helen: the myth of the abducted wife in comparative perspective
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
Abbreviations xv
INTRODUCTION 1
“the abduction of the beautiful wife”
AS INTERNATIONAL tale 20
§1 Typology in Folklore Studies 20
§2 The Concept of Type 22
§3 The Motif 22
§4 The Emic and the Etic 26
§5 From the Emic to the Etic: A Yupik Folktale 29
§6 The Deconstructive Point of View 30
§7 Variant and Version 32
§8 The Ontological Point of View 33
§9 The Historical Basis of an Ontology of the Type 36
§10 How Old Are Folktales? 37
§10.1 Proverb and Fable: Oral Wisdom
Literature in Antiquity 41
§11 Morphology and Structuralism 44
§12 Typological Status of “The Abduction of the Beautiful
Wife” 47
§13 Motifs of “The Abduction of the Beautiful Wife” 49
§13.1 Birth or Origin 49
§13.1.1 Swan Maiden 51
§13.2 Childhood and Marriage 52
§13.3 Perilous Beauty of the Wife 52
§13.4 Abductor 53
§13.5 Abduction 54
§13.6 Recovery 55
§13.7 Fate of the Abductor 56
§13.8 Reunion of Husband and Wife 57
§13.8.1 Orpheus 57
§14 The Syntagma 59
§15 Methodological Reflections 62
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66
DIOSCURI
§1 Introduction 66
§2 The Abduction of Helen by Theseus and Peirithoüs 70
§3 Indo-European Cognates 76
§4 The Caucasus 78
§5 The Baltic Egg 81
§6 Cults of Helen and the Dioscuri 85
§7 The Name Helen and the Nature of Names 87
§8 An Indo-European “Abduction” 91
§8.1 The Abduction in Indo-European Epic 95
§8.2 The Three Functions of Georges
Dumézil and Trojan Myth 99
§9 The Indo-European “Abduction” and the
Question of Origins 100
§10 Conclusion 101
HELEN MYTH 103
§1 Parentage, Birth, Siblings 105
§2 Childhood 109
§3 Wooing of Helen and Marriage to Menelaus 110
§4 Motherhood 118
§5 Paris 121
§6 Abduction 126
§6.1 The Abduction in Art 129
§7 Consequences in Sparta of Helen’s Abduction 136
§8 Stay in Egypt and Eidolon 136
§9 Helen at Troy 142
§10 Recovery of Helen by Menelaus 143
§10.1 The Trojan Horse 144
§10.2 Helen's Role in Her Recovery 145
§10.3 Menelaus's Unhappy and Happy
Reunions with Helen 146
§10.4 Helen Bares Her Breasts? 148
§10.5 Himation 150
§10.6 To the Ships, with His Hand on Her Wrist 152
§10.7 Reflections on the Reunions 154
§11 Return of Menelaus and Helen to Sparta 155
§12 After the Return 157
§13 Death of Helen 157
§14 Comparison of Myth of Helen with “Abduction” Type 159
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HYPOSTASES OF HELEN
§1 The Cult at Platanistas 164
§2 Helen Dendritis 169
§3 Cult at Therapne 174
§3.1 Herodotus's Designation of Helen:
“the goddess” (ή θεός, 6.61.3) 185
§4 Conclusion on Cults 186
§5 The Cults and the Indo-European Goddess 187
§6 Helen as Fictional 188
§7 The Discovery of a Real Helen 189
§7.1 Self Ancient and Modern 191
§7.2 The Discovery of the Personality of Helen 193
§8 Conclusion 195
HELEN IN THE FIFTH CENTURY AND AFTER 197
§1 Helen in the Fifth Century 198
§1.1 Herodotus 198
§1.2 Thucydides 199
§1.3 Pindar 201
§1.4 Helen in Spartan Charter Myth 202
§1.5 Consequences of Social Memory 204
§1.6 Figure of Reference 207
§1.7 Helen as Figure of Song 210
§2 Helen from the Fourth Century to Goethe 213
§2.1 Pythagorean Helen 213
§2.2 Simon Magus 215
§2.3 Faust 219
§3 Roman Reception of the Helen Myth and
the First Fictional Helen 229
§3.1 The Origin of Fiction in Antiquity 230
§3.2 The Fictive and the Fictional 231
§3.3 A Fictive Helen: Ovid, Heroides 16-17 232
§4 Another Fictive Helen (Lucian, True History 2) and
a Fictive Hermione (Colluthus) 234
CONCLUSION
236
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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