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Author:

Konstantinou, Ariadne, author.

Title:

Female mobility and gendered space in ancient Greek myth / Ariadne Konstantinou.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academican imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 189 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Greek literature--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
Goddesses, Greek.
Mythology, Greek.
Goddesses, Greek.
Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
Greek literature.
Mythology, Greek.
Women in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Goddesses on the move -- To move or not to move: the mobility of virgin goddesses -- Beginning from Hestia -- Athena's ride -- Artemis the huntress -- The mobility of Olympian wives and mothers -- Aphrodite's epic love affairs and her mobility -- The mobility of Demeter and other females in the Homeric hymn to Demeter -- Hera's mobility and her choice to remain immobile -- Heroines on the move -- Away from the paternal hearth: mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Io in Prometheus bound: mobility and centrifugality -- The Danaids and Io in the geography of Suppliants -- Female mobility between myth and ritual -- Maenads at the mountain: the mobility of maenads and configurations of space in Euripides' Bacchae -- The space of the hunt in huntress myths and the Arkteia at Brauron -- From female mobility to gendered spaces: the limits of mythic imagination -- The limits of mythic imagination and of female mobility in myth -- "Glass walls" as the limits of female mobility.

Series:

Bloomsbury classical studies monographs

ISBN:

1474256767
9781474256766

OCLC:

(OCoLC)985072312

LCCN:

2017031926

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)