Distaff Side : Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey.

Distaff Side : Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey.

Female Characters play various roles in the Odyssey: patron goddess (Athena), seductress (Kirke, the Sirens, Nausikaa), carnivorous monster (Skylla), maid servant (Eurykleia), and faithful wife (Penelope). Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines these different femalerepresentati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Beth (Art historian)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Homer > Characters > Women.
Homer. > Odyssey.
Homer
Odyssey (Homer)
Art and literature > Greece.
Art, Greek.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
Women and literature > Greece.
Women in art.
Women in literature.
Art and literature
Art, Greek
Epic poetry, Greek
Goddesses, Greek, in literature
Women and literature
Women in art
Women in literature
Greece
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Abbreviations; I. Introduction; 1. The Odyssey, History, and Women; 2. Female Representations and Interpreting the Odyssey; 3. Between Skylla and Penelope: Female Characters of the Odyssey in Archaic and Classical Greek Art; II. Female Representations in the Odyssey; 4. The Plan of Athena; 5. Sirens, Muses and Female Narrators in the Odyssey; 6. Penelope as Moral Agent; 7. Figuring Fidelity in Homer's Odyssey; III. Representations of Female Characters from the Odyssey in Ancient Art; 8. Coming of Age in Phaiakia: The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausikaa.
  • 9. Kirke's Men: Swine and Sweethearts10. Les Femmes Fatales: Skylla and the Sirens in Greek Art; 11. The Intimate Act of Footwashing: Odyssey 19; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

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