A major book about the life and legend of the world's 'most beautiful woman'
Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and
broadcaster who has devoted much of the last twenty years to the
vibrant communication of the past. Her first book, Helen of Troy-
Goddess,Princess, Whore, was published to great critical acclaim
and has now been translated into ten languages. Her latest work,
The Hemlock Cup- Socrates, Athens and the Search For The Good Life,
was short-listed for the Writer's Guild Award and was a New York
Times bestseller.
Bettany has written and presented over 30 factual films and radio
documentary series for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Discovery, The
History Channel and ABC for both the British and International
markets including 'Divine Women', 'The Spartans', 'When The Moors
Ruled in Europe', 'Athens- The Truth of Democracy', 'The Women of
the Bible', 'Alexandria- The Greatest City' and 'Helen of Troy'.
These have now been seen by over 150 million people worldwide.
In recognition of her 'outstanding contribution' to history and
historical research Bettany has been awarded the Norton Medlicott
Medal for History. Bettany is a founding patron of the educational
charity 'Classics For All', was the Chair of the Orange Prize for
Fiction and advisor to The Foundation for Science, Technology and
Civilisation. Bettany was a Scholar at Oxford University and holds
a Research Fellowship at King's College, London.
She lives in the UK and abroad with her husband and their two
daughters.
The book triumphantly reclaims Helen from some of her traducers.
Hughes' portrait is as close to a real, living Helen as we are
likely to get
*Financial Times*
This book is a real tour de force. It combines astonishing
erudition and knowledge of the early classical world with a
wonderful easy fluency of writing
*John Julius Norwich*
Evoking in sensuous and gorgeous prose the citadels, the palaces
and the luxuries of that long-vanished world... A passionate
book
*Sunday Times*
Fantastic... I have never, ever, read anybody write so well about
travels in Greece and going to explore archaeological sites
*Woman's Hour*
A genuinely exciting historial narrative
*Sunday Telegraph*
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