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The distaff side : representing the female in Homer's Odyssey / edited by Beth Cohen.

Contributor Cohen, Beth.

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Descriptionxviii, 229 p. : illUS. ; 25 cm.

Note:The Odyssey, history, and women / A.J. Graham. - Female representations and interpreting the Odyssey / Seth L. Schein. - Between Skylla and Penelope: female characters of the Odyssey in archaic and classical Greek art / Diana Buitron-Oliver and Beth Cohen. - The plan of Athena / Sheila Murnaghan. - Sirens, muses and female narrators in the Odyssey / Lillian Eileen Doherty. - Penelope as moral agent / Helene P. Foley. - Figuring fidelity in Homer's Odyssey / Froma I. Seitlin. - Coming of age in Phaiakia: the meeting of Odysseus and Nausikaa / H.A. Shapiro. - Kirke's men: swine and sweethearts / Richard Brilliant. - Les femmes fatales: Skylla and the sirens in Greek art / Jenifer Neils. - The intimate act of footwashing: Odyssey 19 / Christine Mitchell Havelock.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.

Library Shelf Location Call Number Item Status
Buhl LibraryBuhl - Open Stacks PA4167 .D57 1995 Available

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Cohen, Beth.
Subject:
Homer. Odyssey.
Homer -- Characters.
Subject:
Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Greece -- History.
Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
Art and literature -- Greece.
Women in literature.
Women in art.
Art, Greek.