Title The distaff side : representing the female in Homer's Odyssey / edited by Beth Cohen

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 229 pages) : illustrations Series OUP E-Books 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 Summary 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 several essays discuss the visual and iconographic implications of Odysseus' female encounters in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. Feminine in orientation, but not narrowly feminist in approach, this first interdisciplinary work on the Odyssey's female characters will have a broad audience among scholars and students working in classical studies, iconography and art history, women's studies, mythology, and ancient history Analysis Epic poetry Greek poetry Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Homer. Odyssey. Homer -- Characters -- Women SUBJECT Homer -- Characters -- Women Homer Homer -- Characters -- Women Homer fast Forchenbrunn, Herwerd von gnd Homère (08.?-08.? av. J.-C.). 'Odyssée. ram Homère, (08.?-08.? av. J.-C.) -- Personnages. ram Odyssey (Homer) fast Odyssea gnd Subject Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Greece Goddesses, Greek, in literature. Art and literature -- Greece Women in literature. Women in art. Art, Greek. Women and literature -- Greece -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Art and literature Art, Greek Epic poetry, Greek Goddesses, Greek, in literature Women and literature Women in art Women in literature Frau Motiv Odyssea (Homerus) Vrouwen. Femmes -- Dans la littérature. Femmes -- Dans l'art. Greece Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Cohen, Beth (Art historian) LC no. 94006749 ISBN 1429406259 9781429406253 9780195344738 0195344731 128052720X 9781280527203 9780195086829 0195086821 9786610527205 6610527202 019508683X 9780195086836

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