Female mobility and gendered space in ancient Greek myth / Ariadne Konstantinou.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Konstantinou, Ariadne, author.

Series:

• Classical Studies & Archaeology 2017.
• Classical Studies & Archaeology 2017

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Greek literature--History and criticism.
• Greek literature.
• Women in literature.
• Goddesses, Greek, in literature.
• Goddesses, Greek.
• Mythology, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Women's mobility is central to understanding cultural constructions of gender. Regarding ancient cultures, including ancient Greece, an re-evaluation of women's mobility within the household and beyond it is currently taking place. This invites an informed analysis of female mobility in Greek myth, under the premise that myth may open a venue to social ideology and the imaginary. Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth offers the first comprehensive analysis and the 'mobility turn'. A variety of Olympian goddesses and mortal heroines are explored, and the analysis of their myths follows specific chronological considerations. Female mobility is presented in quite diverse ways I myth, reflecting cultural flexibility in imagining mobile goddesses and heroines. At the same time, the out-of doors spaces that mortal heroines inhabit seem to lack a public or civic quality, with the heroines being contained behind 'glass walls'. In this respect, myth seems to reproduce the cultural limitations of ancient Greek social ideology on mobility, inviting us to reflect not only on the limits of mythic imagination but also on the timelessness of Greek myth. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781474256797

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