The Glory of Hera : Greek Mythology and the Greek Family / Philip Elliot Slater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slater, Philip Elliot, author.

Series:

Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)

Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; 99

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Greece.

Women.

Mythology, Greek.

Families--Greece.

Families.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (543 pages).

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in this classic work on narcissism and family relationships in fifth-century Athenian society. Exploring a rich corpus of Greek mythology and drama, he argues that the personalities and social behavior of the gods were neurotic, and that their neurotic conditions must have mirrored the family life of the people who perpetuated their myths. The author traces the issue of narcissism to mother-son relationships, focusing primarily on the literary representation of Hera and the male gods and showing how it related to devalued women raising boys in an ambitious society dominated by men. "The role of homosexuality in society, fatherless families, working mothers, women's status, and violence, male pride, and male bonding--all these find their place in Slater's analysis, so honestly and carefully addressed that we see our own societal dilemmas reflected in archaic mythic narratives all the more clearly."--Richard P. Martin, Princeton UniversityOriginally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Part One: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER I. The Greek Mother-Son Relationship: Origins and Consequences

CHAPTER II. Symbols, the Serpent, and the Oral-Narcissistic Dilemma

Part Two: MYTHICAL DEFENSES AGAINST THE MATERNAL THREAT

CHAPTER III. Sexual Dominance: Zeus

CHAPTER IV. Masculine Antisepsis: Apollo

CHAPTER V. Matricide: Orestes

CHAPTER VI. Self-Emasculation: Hephaestus

CHAPTER VII. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus

CHAPTER VIII. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus

CHAPTER IX. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus

CHAPTER X. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus

CHAPTER XI. Maternal De-Sexualization: Perseus

CHAPTER XII. The Multiple Defenses of Heracles

Part Three: QUANTIFICATIONS, GENERALIZATIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS

CHAPTER XIII. Familial Emphases in Greek Myth: A Statistical Analysis

CHAPTER XIVI. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Maternal Ambivalence and Narcissism

CHAPTER XV. Cultural Pathology and Cultural Development

APPENDIXES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Copyright ©1968 by Philip E. Slater. The book was originally published by Beacon Press, and is reprinted here by arrangement with them.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-502) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-60565-3

0-691-63458-0

1-4008-6281-7

OCLC:

889252690