christopher marlowe wrote was this the face that launched a thousand ships.
christopher marlowe wrote was this the face that launched a thousand ships.
who wrote was this the face that launched a thousand ships?
christopher marlowe
helen appears in various versions of the faust myth, including christopher marlowe's 1604 play "the tragical history of doctor faustus", in which faustus famously marvels, "was this the face that launched a thousand ships / and burnt the topless towers of ilium?" upon seeing a demon impersonating helen. the line, which is frequently quoted out of context, is a paraphrase of a statement from lucian's "dialogues of the dead". it is debated whether the phrase conveys astonishment at helen's beauty, or disappointment that she is not more beautiful. the german poet and polymath johann wolfgang von goethe re-envisioned the meeting of faust and helen. in "", the union of helen and faust becomes a complex allegory of the meeting of the classical-ideal and modern worlds.
helen of troy
nominal identity in linguistics pertains to the identity of a word or group of words functioning as a noun or an adjective within a sentence's structure. specifically, it relates to how one can look at a sentence and propose a different understanding of that sentence through the analysis of its identity defined in its lexical construct, such as in the example used by chris barker when discussing one of manfred krifka's study "four thousand ships passed through the lock: object-induced measure functions on events":









































"(1) four thousand ships passed through the lock last year."
nominal identity