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 female representations 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 as depicted 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, Froma I. 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 in classical studies, iconography and art history, women's studies, mythology, and ancient history.
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"The essays collected in The Distaff Side provide a useful addition to the sizeable new literature on females in the Odyssey. The essays have been thoughtfully edited, and can be read with profit by undergraduates as well as by their instructors. All Greek is translated, obscurities are explained, and technical and theoretical terminology avoided."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"Beautifully produced....The essays reveal wide research, good thinking, and sound scholarship."--Choice
"This lively assortment of scholarly perspectives is well-researched and attentive to literary and artistic nuance, an authoritative work that will provoke scholars of women's history as well as classicists, art historians, and teachers of The Odyssey."--Religious Studies Review
"Very intelligent, accessible tour around women in the Odyssey....First-rate introduction to the subject."--Sophie Mills, U.N.C.
"[T]he volume constitutes a unique collection of outstanding articles on every aspect of the feminine in the Odyssey."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies
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If we include the goddesses and semidivine women, the Odyssey presents a great panorama of womanhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
footwashing episode, nonhuman females, name vase, epic narrator, lost painting, vase painter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Museum, Penelope Painter, Museum of Fine Arts, New York, Paul Getty Museum, South Italian, Bronze Age, Classical Greek, National Archaeological Museum, Early Classical, Homeric Sirens, Wooden Horse, Homeric Hymn, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum, Nausicaa Painter, Painter of the Boston Polyphemos, Siren Painter, Antikensammlung Staatliche Museen, Archaic Greek, Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Fletcher Fund, Lesche of the Cnidians, Temple of Zeus New!
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If we include the goddesses and semidivine women, the Odyssey presents a great panorama of womanhood. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
footwashing episode, nonhuman females, name vase, epic narrator, lost painting, vase painter Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Museum, Penelope Painter, Museum of Fine Arts, New York, Paul Getty Museum, South Italian, Bronze Age, Classical Greek, National Archaeological Museum, Early Classical, Homeric Sirens, Wooden Horse, Homeric Hymn, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum, Nausicaa Painter, Painter of the Boston Polyphemos, Siren Painter, Antikensammlung Staatliche Museen, Archaic Greek, Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Fletcher Fund, Lesche of the Cnidians, Temple of Zeus New!
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- Greece and Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Joan R. Mertens in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Homeric Hymn to Demeter by Helene P. Foley in Front Matter, page 13, and Back Matter
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso on page 173, and Back Matter
- Visual Narratives: Storytelling in Etruscan and Roman Art by Richard Brilliant in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Reading the Odyssey by Seth L. Schein in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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