The Distaff Side : Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey.
Title:
The Distaff Side : Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey.
Author:
Cohen, Beth.
ISBN:
9780195344738
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Contents:
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 Sweethearts -- 10. 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 -- Plates.
Abstract:
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 femalerepresentations 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 asdepicted in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. The distinguished contributors--from the fields of classical studies, comparative literature, art history, and archaeology--are A.J. Graham, Seth L. Schein, Diana Buitron-Oliver, Beth Cohen, Sheila Murnaghan, Lillian Eileen Doherty, Helene P. Foley, FromaI. Zeitlin, H.A. Shapiro, Richard Brilliant, Jenifer Neils, and Christine Mitchell Havelock. Feminine in orientation, but not narrowly feminist in approach, this first interdisciplinary work on the Odyssey's female characters will have a broad audience amongst scholars and students working inclassical studies, iconography and art history, women's studies, mythology, and ancient history.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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