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

Other author Cohen, Beth.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Descriptionxviii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Homer. Odyssey.
Homer--Characters. --Women.
Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Greece. --History.
Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
Art and literature--Greece.
Women in literature.
Women in art.
Art, Greek.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
LCCN 94006749
ISBN0195086821 (alk. paper)
ISBN019508683X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PA4167 .D57 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner General Stacks PA4167 .D57 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold