Female mobility and gendered space in ancient Greek myth

Goddesses on the move -- To move or not to move: the mobility of virgin goddesses -- Beginning from Hestia -- Athena's ride -- Artemis the huntress -- The mobility of Olympian wives and mothers -- Aphrodite's epic love affairs and her mobility -- The mobility of Demeter and other females i...

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Main Author: Konstantinou, Ariadne (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2018
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
In:Year: 2018
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Greece (Antiquity) / Mythology / Woman / Mobility
Further subjects:B Mythology, Greek
B Greek literature History and criticism
B Goddesses, Greek, in literature
B Women in literature
B Goddesses, Greek
B Thesis
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Summary:Goddesses on the move -- To move or not to move: the mobility of virgin goddesses -- Beginning from Hestia -- Athena's ride -- Artemis the huntress -- The mobility of Olympian wives and mothers -- Aphrodite's epic love affairs and her mobility -- The mobility of Demeter and other females in the Homeric hymn to Demeter -- Hera's mobility and her choice to remain immobile -- Heroines on the move -- Away from the paternal hearth: mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Mobile heroines in Greek tragedy -- Io in Prometheus bound: mobility and centrifugality -- The Danaids and Io in the geography of Suppliants -- Female mobility between myth and ritual -- Maenads at the mountain: the mobility of maenads and configurations of space in Euripides' Bacchae -- The space of the hunt in huntress myths and the Arkteia at Brauron -- From female mobility to gendered spaces: the limits of mythic imagination -- The limits of mythic imagination and of female mobility in myth -- "Glass walls" as the limits of female mobility
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:1474256791
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5040/9781474256797