| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 229 pages) : illustrations |
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Women language |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index. |
| Contents |
Odyssey, history, and women / A.J. Graham -- Female representations and interpreting the Odyssey / Seth L. Schein -- Between Skylla and Penelope : female characters of the Odyssey in Archaic and Classical Greek Art / Diana Buitron-Oliver and Beth Cohen -- Plan of Athena / Sheila Murnaghan -- Sirens, muses and female narrators in the Odyssey / Lillian Eileen Doherty -- Penelope as moral agent / Helene P. Foley -- Figuring fidelity in Homer's Odyssey / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Coming of age in Phaiakia : the meeting of Odysseus and Nausikaa / H.A. Shapiro -- Kirke's men : swine and sweethearts / Richard Brilliant -- Femmes fatales : Skylla and the Sirens in Greek Art / Jennifer Neils -- Intimate act of footwashing : Odyssey / Christine Mitchell Havelock. |
| Summary |
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the different representations of women in the Odyssey and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the visualization of the Odyssey's female characters by ancient artists, and several essays discuss the visual and iconographic implications of Odysseus' female encounters in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. Feminine in orientation, but not narrowly feminist in approach, this first interdisciplinary work on the Odyssey's female characters will have a broad audience among scholars and students working in classical studies, iconography and art history, women's studies, mythology, and ancient history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homer. Odyssey.
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Homer -- Characters -- Women.
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Homer. |
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Odyssey (Homer) |
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, Greek. |
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Women and literature -- Greece.
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Women and literature. |
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Greece. |
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Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
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Goddesses, Greek, in literature. |
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Art and literature -- Greece.
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Art and literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Women in art.
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Women in art. |
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Art, Greek.
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Art, Greek. |
| Indexed Term |
Epic poetry |
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Greek poetry |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Epic poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Subject |
Greek poetry.
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| Added Author |
Cohen, Beth (Art historian)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Distaff side. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 (DLC) 94006749 |
| ISBN |
1429406259 (electronic book) |
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9781429406253 (electronic book) |
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9780195344738 (electronic book) |
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0195344731 (electronic book) |
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128052720X |
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9781280527203 |
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9780195086829 (alkaline paper) |
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0195086821 (alkaline paper) |
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019508683X (Paper) |
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0195086821 (alkaline paper) |
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9780195086836 |
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