Gender and immortality
heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult
by Deborah J. Lyons
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In Gender and Immortality, 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 reintegrate 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. The author further shows that attention to heroines clarifies fundamental Greek ideas of mortal/immortal relationships.
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Cults, Greek Mythology, Greek literature, Heroines in literature, History and criticism, Immortality in literature, Mythology, Mythology, Greek, Religion, Sex role in literature, Women, Women and literature, Greek literature, history and criticism, Women, mythology, Heroes in literature, Greece, religion, Cults, greecePlaces
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Gender and immortality: heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult
1997, Princeton University Press
in English
0691011001 9780691011004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-253) and index.
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