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Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Princeton Legacy Library) Hardcover - 1996
by Lyons, Deborah
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- Title Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Princeton Legacy Library)
- Author Lyons, Deborah
- Binding Hardcover
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- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
- Date 1996
- ISBN 9780691011004
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Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0691011001 . 1.25 x 10 x 6.75 Inches; 288 pages; In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. Using evidence ranging from Homeric epic to Attic vase painting to ancient travel writing, she attempts to re-integrate the feminine into our picture of Greek notions of the hero. According to Lyons, heroines differ from male heroes in several crucial ways, among which is the ability to cross the boundaries between mortal and immortal. She further shows that attention to heroines clarifies fundamental Greek ideas of mortal/immortal relationships.…
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Princeton University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0691011001 . Book in plastic sleeve. Light Foxing/dustsoiling to book and DJ. Else very minor shelfwear. ; 1.25 x 10 x 6.75 Inches; 288 pages; In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. Using evidence ranging from Homeric epic to Attic vase painting to ancient travel writing, she attempts to re-integrate the feminine into our picture of Greek notions of the hero. According to Lyons, heroines differ from male heroes in several crucial ways, among which is the ability to cross the boundaries between mortal and immortal. She further…
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Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1997. Hardcover. Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. All pages unmarked and uncreased. In good order overall. xvii, 269. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Women--Mythology; Women and literature; Greece; Greek literature; Immortality in literature; Mythology, Greek; ISBN: 0691011001. ISBN/EAN: 9780691011004. Add. Inventory No: 231018HAN015039. . 9780691011004
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Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton Univ Pr, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Several creased/dog-eared pages, otherwise very clean, tight and bright.
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