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The children of Athena : Athenian ideas about citizenship and the division between the sexes / Nicole Loraux ; translated by Caroline Levine ; foreword by Froma I. Zeitlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loraux, Nicole, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Enfants d'Athena. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Greece.
- Sex role.
- Women--Greece.
- Women.
- Athens (Greece)--Social conditions.
- Athens (Greece).
- Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1994]
- Language Note:
- In English and French.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- Autochthony and the Athenian Imaginary
- Fragments of a Lexicon for the Acropolis
- I. ATHENIANS AND WOMEN
- 1. Autochthony: An Athenian Topic
- 2. On the Race of Women and Some of Its Tribes: Hesiod and Semonides
- 3. The Athenian Name: Imaginary Structures of Lineage in Athens
- II REALITY, FICTION: WOMEN OF ATHENS
- 4. The Comic Acropolis: Aristophanes, Lysistrat
- 5. Autochthonous Kreousa: Euripides, Ion
- EPILOGUE Once Again, the Woman, the Virgin, Female Athenians
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-266) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691032726
- 0691032726
- OCLC:
- 1264471051
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