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Pandora’s Jar: Helen

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Feb 27, 2021 Ancient Greece and Rome, Greek mythology, Helen of Troy, literature, Natalie Haynes, Pandora’s Jar

Helen of Troy is the third chapter of Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes. Here are the pictorial resources she draws on in the text in glorious colour.

Leda and the Swan on a bedroom wall in Pompeii.

Leda and the Swan by Tintoretto

Leda and the Swan after Leonardo

Leda and the Swan after Michelangelo

Helen by Rossetti

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