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03782cam a2200421 a 4500 001 69A277EAFBCE11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20100201083435 008 070730s2008 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2007031417 020 $a 0203932145 (ebk.) 020 $a 9780203932148 (ebk.) 020 $a 0415300665 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780415300667 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0415300657 (hardback : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780415300650 (hardback : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)162145982 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BWKUK $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BWX $d IXA $d NLGGC $d OUP $d IOP $d SILO 100 1 $a Deacy, Susan. 245 1 $a Athena / $c Susan Deacy. 260 $a New York : $b Routledge, $c 2008. 300 $a xviii, 175 p. : $b ill. ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Gods and heroes of the ancient world 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-169) and index. 505 0 $a WHY ATHENA? -- INTRODUCING ATHENA -- Who was Athena? -- Confronting diversity -- Athena and her attributes -- The scope of this book -- Note on spelling and translations -- KEY THEMES -- 1. THE BIRTH OF ATHENA -- Introduction: hardly a headache -- Antecedents -- Capturing the moment -- Cosmic terror: the Homeric Hymn to Athena -- The succession myth and the defeat of the mother -- Overview -- 2. TRACING ATHENA'S ORIGINS -- Introduction: do origins matter? -- Athena, matriarchy and the goddess movement -- Bachofen and 'mother-right'-- 'Snake' and 'shield goddess' -- Criticising the matriarchy myth -- Warrior goddesses of the ancient world: ancestresses of Athena? -- Overview -- 3. FROM ORIGINS TO FUNCTIONS: ATHENA IN THE PANTHEON -- Introduction: confronting the pantheon -- The 'new way': the functionalist paradigm -- Athena and Poseidon: the horse and the sea -- Athena and Hephaistos: skilled craft -- Athena and Ares: war -- Overview: a key to Athena? -- 4. HEROES, HEROINES AND THE TROJAN WAR -- Introduction: helping friends, harming enemies -- Heroes on quests -- Odysseus and Herakles -- 'The Zeus-born Trojan girl' -- Mythic females: helping men, harming women -- Overview -- 5. ATHENA IN ATHENS: PATRON, SYMBOL AND 'MOTHER' -- Introduction -- Athena, Zeus and social cohesion -- Poseidon and the contest for the land -- Athena's 'children': the story of the birth of Erichthonios -- Overview -- 6. EARLY ATHENIAN HISTORY -- Introduction -- The 'Mistress of At(h)ana' and the Mycenaean Palace -- The synoecism -- 566 and all that: the sixth century -- The Persian invasion -- Overview -- 7. ALL ABOUT ATHENA? THE CLASSICAL AKROPOLIS-- Introduction -- After the War -- Unity and imperialism -- Prettifying the city: the Parthenon -- Overview -- 8. THE WIDER GREEK WORLD -- Introduction -- Moving beyond Athens -- Sparta: the bronze house and the bells -- Argos: 'clear-sighted Athena' -- Arcadia: a fertility goddess? -- Delphi and elsewhere: the conception and protection of children -- Assimilatons: Anat and Minerva -- Overview: a multiplicity of Athenas? -- ATHENA AFTERWARDS -- 9. FROM BEING TO IMAGE: THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE POSTCLASSICAL WORLD -- Introduction: moving beyond antiquity -- From pagan abomination to ethical symbol -- Allegory and symbolism -- Literary Athenas -- Feminism and gender theory -- Overview. 650 0 $a Athena (Greek deity) 650 17 $a Athena. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Cultus. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Mythologie. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Receptie. $2 gtt 830 0 $a Gods and heroes of the ancient world. 941 $a 4 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825031421.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20100201083435.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20100120073657.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20100201083435.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=69A277EAFBCE11DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b IOPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search