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GENDER AND IMMORTALITY Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult
by Lyons, Deborah J
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0691011001
- ISBN 13
- 9780691011004
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Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0691011001 . 1.25 x 10 x 6.75 Inches; 288 pages; In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. Using evidence ranging from Homeric epic to Attic vase painting to ancient travel writing, she attempts to re-integrate the feminine into our picture of Greek notions of the hero. According to Lyons, heroines differ from male heroes in several crucial ways, among which is the ability to cross the boundaries between mortal and immortal. She further shows that attention to heroines clarifies fundamental Greek ideas of mortal/immortal relationships. The book first discusses heroines both in relation to heroes and as a separate religious and mythic phenomenon. It examines the cultural meanings of heroines in ritual and representation, their use as examples for mortals, and their typical "biographies." The model of "ritual antagonism," in which two mythic figures represented as hostile share a cult, is ultimately modified through an exploration of the mythic correspondences between the god Dionysos and the heroines surrounding him, and through a rethinking of the relationship between Iphigeneia and Artemis. An appendix, which identifies more than five hundred heroines, rounds out this lively work. .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32989
- Title
- GENDER AND IMMORTALITY Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult
- Author
- Lyons, Deborah J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0691011001
- ISBN 13
- 9780691011004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 0691011001, Religion & Spirituality, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Greek Literature, Classical Greek & Roman, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Greek History, Paganism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Paganism; Mythology;
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