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01797aam a2200337 4500 001 627DB8DCBB6911E18DFFB5C36AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20200130012934 008 051010s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 037572835X 020 $a 9780375728358 040 $a TEFBT $c TEFBT $d SILO $d QQ3 $d CTL $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Elyot, Amanda. 245 1 $a The memoirs of Helen of Troy $h [text (large print)] : $b a novel / $c Amanda Elyot. 250 $a 1st large print ed. 260 $a New York : $b Random House Large Print, $c c2005. 300 $a 530 p. (large print) ; $c 25 cm. 520 $a Gossips began whispering about Princess Helen from the moment of her birth. A daughter of the royal house of Sparta, she was not truly the progeny of King Tyndareus, they murmured, but of Zeus, king of the gods. Her mother, Queen Leda, a powerful priestess, was branded an adulteress, with tragic consequences. To complicate matters, as Helen grew to adulthood her beauty was so breathtaking that it overshadowed even that of her jealous sister, Clytemnestra, making her even more of an outcast within her own family. So it came as something of a relief to her when she was kidnapped by Theseus, king of Athens, in a gambit to replenish his kingdom's coffers. 541 $d 20110101. 650 0 $a Greeks $z Turkey $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Mythology, Greek $x Fiction. 650 0 $a Trojan War $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Troy (Extinct city) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Fantasy fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202031341.0 952 $l XFPB697 $d 20120621062413.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=627DB8DCBB6911E18DFFB5C36AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search