Helen Of Troy: The Story Behind The Most Beautiful Woman In The World, Bettany Hughes

c. 2005.

Tag: whore, Troy.

I bought this at the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, MA, in 2013, or thereabouts. Josh and Kiri lived in Belmont, MA, a suburb to the west of Boston, 2009 - 2013.

The three books that dovetail very nicely (other than Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey):

• The Wooden House, Keld
• Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age, Christian Meier
• Helen of Troy: The Story Behind the Most Beautiful Woman In The World, Bettany Hughes, c. 2005.

I've read each of these books at least twice.

The most marked-up book with my handwritten notes: Helen of Troy.

Handwritten notes elsewhere. Way too much to transcribe. May transcribe it someday. -- posted, July 18, 2020

It looks like one can read this book (Helen of Troy) on-line but what a pain, all the ads. 

The wedding of Peleus and Thetis.

• Thetis, sometimes also identified with Metis
• sea nymph; goddess of water; 
• one of the 50 Nereids (sea nymphs) 
• a granddaughter of Tethys
• in Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, mother of the river gods and the Oceanids. Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology and no established cults.

****************************