| Description |
xviii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Homer. Odyssey.
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Homer -- Characters -- Women.
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- Greece.
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Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
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Art and literature -- Greece.
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Women in literature.
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Women in art.
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Art, Greek.
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| Indexed Term |
Epic poetry |
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Greek poetry |
| Added Author |
Cohen, Beth.
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| ISBN |
0195086821 alkaline paper |
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019508683X paperback alkaline paper |
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