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Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics vor 6 Jahren

Natalie Haynes tells stories of the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Troy.

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Natalie Haynes tells stories of the most beautiful woman in the
world, who hatched from an egg and was the daughter of Zeus:
Helen of Troy. Men fought over her from an early age, but was she
really to blame for all those wars on epic scale?

Helen's face may have launched a thousand ships but it didn't
make her happy: being kidnapped repeatedly does not make for
contented relationships. How have her life and beauty been
exploited by writers and artists across the centuries, to justify
their own world-views?

In this locked down, more intimate version of her show, Natalie
offers escape to a different realm: the mythological. As fresh
and funny as ever, Natalie brings us new insights into feathery
sex as well as gossipy erudition from a couple of thousand years
of culture, with the help of Professor Edith Hall.