The Children of Athena : : Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes / / Nicole Loraux.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of 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