0834.34ParisHelen

0834.34ParisHelen_David

Homer Iliad 3
Homer Odyssey 4
Herodot. Hist. 2.112-20
Apollod. Libr. 3.10.7-22.1

Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825, "(The Loves of) Paris and Helen," painting, 1788, Louvre, Paris, inv. 3696.

David's decision to draw upon ancient iconographic antecedents results in a revival of mythological painting in late 18th-century are. — D. Johnson, Jacques-Louis David: art in metamorphosis, 243ff. Cf. S. Schneider in Moog-Gruenewald s.v. "Helen" p. 313.

Generally on Helen-rezeption:
J. Solomon, IJSCT 14 (2007) 482-534.
Bettany Hughes (2005), Helen of Troy: goddess, princess, whore (New York: Knopf).
N. Austin, Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom (Ithaca, 1994)
M. Gumpert, Grafting Helen: the abduction of the classical past (Madison, 2001)
M. Suzuki, Metamorphoses of Helen: authority, difference, and the epic (Ithaca, 1989)

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled forThe Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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