Women in Greek myth
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Women in Greek myth
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
2nd ed
- : hardcover
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-232) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the first edition of Women in Greek Myth, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the last remnant of a forgotten matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, and Antigone as an oppressed revolutionary, Lefkowitz argued that such views were justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the relevant documentary evidence. Concentrating on those aspects of women's experience most often misunderstood-life apart from men, marriage, influence in politics, self-sacrifice and martyrdom, and misogyny-she presented a far less negative account of the role of Greek women, both ordinary and extraordinary, as manifested in the central works of Greek literature. This updated and expanded edition includes six new chapters on such topics as heroic women in Greek epic, seduction and rape in Greek myth, and the parts played by women in ancient rites and festivals.
Revisiting the original chapters as well to incorporate two decades of more recent scholarship, Lefkowitz again shows that what Greek men both feared and valued in women was not their sexuality but their intelligence.
Table of Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1. Princess Ida and the Amazons
2. The Powers of the Primeval oddesses
3. The Heroic Women of Greek Epic
4. Chosen Women
5. Seduction and Rape
6. "Predatory" Goddesses
7. The Last Hours of the Parthenos
8. Women in the Panathenaic and Other Festivals
9. Women without Men
10. Wives
11. Influential Women
12. Martyrs
13. Misogyny
Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index
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