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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 350grams, ISBN: 9781853994784.
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New. 1853994782. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--Modern feminism often takes Greek mythology as reflecting a world in which men dominate women, mainly through tear of their sexuality. Amazons represent original matriarchy suppressed by male conspiracy; Clytemnestra is a neglected wife and frustrated individualist; Antigone a Greenham-Common-style oppressed revolutionary. Mary Lefkowitz, however, in this sensible and stimulating volume, shows that such interpretations hardly match our documentary evidence for the myths. Concentrating on particular aspects of women's experience--life apart from men, marriage, influence on politics, self-sacrifice, martyrdom, misogyny--she offers a less negative account of the role of women in Greek literature, concluding that what Greek amen feared in women was not so much their sexuality as their intelligence. Greek mythology is perhaps ancient Greece's most enduring legacy. Lefkowitz's fresh and lucid assessment of it is of interest not just to undergraduates, sixth-formers and their teachers, but also to those far beyond the confines of Classical scholarship. --TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface * 1. Princess Ida and the Amazons * 2. Chosen Women * 3. Women without Men * 4. Wives * 5. Influential Women * 6. Martyrs * 7. Misogyny * Epilogue * Notes * Bibliography * Index--with a bonus offer--