Gender and immortality: heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult

288 Pages·1997·25.584 MB·English

by  Lyons, Deborah

GENDER AND IMMORTALITY

GENDER AND IMMORTALITY
HEROINES IN ANCIENT GREEK
MYTH AND CULT
Deborah Lyons
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Lyons, Deborah, 1954-
Gender and immortality : heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult /
Deborah Lyons.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-691-01100-1 cl (: alk. paper)
1. Greek literature(cid:151)History and criticism, 2. Women and
literature(cid:151)Greece. 3. Immortality in literature. 4. Women(cid:151)
Greece(cid:151)Mythology. 5. ex Srole in literature. 6. Heroines
in literature. 7. Mythology, Greek. 8. Greece(cid:151)Religion.
9. Cults(cid:151)Greece. I. Title.
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note to the Reader xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 3
Chapter One
Heroines and Heroes 7
Chapter Two
Heroines and Mortals 35
Chapter Three
Mortals and Immortals 69
Chapter Four
Dionysiac Heroines 03 1
Chapter Five
The Goddess and Her Doubles 34 1
Appendix: Mythic Cult-Founders Female 69 1
Conclusion 71 1
Appendix
A Catalogue of Heroines 73 1
Bibliography 237
Index Locorum 255
General Index

Illustrations
Figure 1: Comic scene of the birth of Helen, Apulian bell krater, c.
380-370 B.C.E. (Museo Archeologico, Bari ). 9983Photograph
courtesy of Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Rome. 23
Figure 2: Helen aMnd enelaos, Attic ll ebkrater, Persephone Painter,
c. 440-430 B.C.E. (Toledo Museum of Art 67.154). 40
Figure 3: Heroines at Home, Attic red-figure pyxis, attributed a to
follower of Douris, c. 455-445 B.C.E. (British Museum ¯ BM 773). 41
Figure 4: Hermes pursues Herse, Attic red-figure Column Krater,
Syracuse painter, c. 470-450 B.C.E. Angelos es L(County Museum
of Art, William Randolph Hearst Collection 50.8.6). 61
Figure 5: Danae atlnd ahe rnax, Attic red-figure hydria, attributed to
the Gallatin Painter, c. 90 4B.C.E. (Boston MFA 13.200). Francis
Bartlett Fund. Courtesy Museum of ne iFArts, Boston. 62
Figure 6: Kallisto becoming a bear, Apulian red-figure Chous, close
to Black Fury Painter, c. 370-350 B.C.E. (J. Paul Getty Museum,
Malibu, California 72AE ). 821 02 1
Figure 7: ce ifircaSof Iphigeneia, Apulian volute krater, related to the
Ilioupersis Painter, c. 370-355 B.C.E. (British Museum ). 9BM F 51 44 1
Figure 8: Rape of Kassandra, Attic calyx krater attributed to the
Altamura Painter, c. 465 B.C.E. (Boston MFA 59.178). William
Francis Warden Fund. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 65 1