Gender and Immortality : Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult

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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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyons, Deborah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Mythology.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Mythology, Greek.
Immortality in literature.
Heroines in literature.
Greek literature.
Cults.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Cultes > Grece.
Mythologie grecque.
Heroïnes dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Femmes > Mythologie > Grece.
Immortalite dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature > Grece.
Litterature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Cults > Greece.
Women > Mythology > Greece.
Women and literature > Greece.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Cover; Acknowledgments.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9781400864386

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