Description
Book SynopsisRevisiting the original chapters as well to incorporate two decades of more recent scholarship, Lefkowitz again shows that what Greek men both feared and valued in women was not their sexuality but their intelligence.
Trade ReviewThe evidence Lefkowitz provides in the new chapters bolsters her claims and makes this edition a necessary replacement of the former. Choice 2008
Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1. Princess Ida and the Amazons
2. The Powers of the Primeval oddesses
3. The Heroic Women of Greek Epic
4. Chosen Women
5. Seduction and Rape
6. "Predatory" Goddesses
7. The Last Hours of the Parthenos
8. Women in the Panathenaic and Other Festivals
9. Women without Men
10. Wives
11. Influential Women
12. Martyrs
13. Misogyny
Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index
