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The distaff side : representing the female in Homer's Odyssey /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cohen, Beth (Art historian)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.