The distaff side : representing the female in Homer's Odyssey / edited by Beth Cohen.

Contributor(s):

Cohen, Beth (Art historian)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 229 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1429406259
9781429406253
9780195344738
0195344731
128052720X
9781280527203
9780195086829
0195086821
9786610527205
6610527202
019508683X
9780195086836

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Distaff side.DDC classification:

883/.01 20

LOC classification:

PA4167 .D57 1995eb

Other classification:

18.43

Online resources:

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index.

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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.

English.

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