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The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes

By Nicole Loraux

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0691032726, 9780691032726
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10791203 bytes)
Pages
296\144
Topic
History
Time added
2016-03-28 01:14:17
Sex;Self-Help;Greece;Ancient Civilizations;History

Description

Caroline Levine (transl.), Froma I. Zeitlin (foreword) 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.

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