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Women in Greek Myth

Women in Greek Myth

Lefkowitz, Mary R.

Paperback

Literary CriticismReligion General Mythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 0801886503
ISBN13: 9780801886508
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Jul 1 2007
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.88
Language: English

In the first edition of Women in Greek Myth, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female characters in Greek mythology. Where some scholars saw the Amazons as the last remnant of a forgotten matriarchy, Clytemnestra as a frustrated individualist, and Antigone as an oppressed revolutionary, Lefkowitz argued that such views were justified neither by the myths themselves nor by the relevant documentary evidence. Concentrating on those aspects of women's experience most often misunderstood--life apart from men, marriage, influence in politics, self-sacrifice and martyrdom, and misogyny--she presented a far less negative account of the role of Greek women, both ordinary and extraordinary, as manifested in the central works of Greek literature.

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