Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency

ISBN-13: 9780198826309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Lilah Grace Canevaro

Opis

Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, yet they also use objects to negotiate their own agency. This volume shines new light on the Iliad and Odyssey, combining Gender Theory and New Materialisms to decentre the male subject and put centre stage not only the woman as object but also the agency of women and objects.

Recenzje

an engaging and accessible book that will be of interest to those studying both women and objects in ancient literary contexts. The innovative approach is a significant contribution to studies of Homeric women, as it provides a more nuanced understanding of female gender roles and expectations in Homer ... This book also contributes to the understanding of how objects operate and how humans interact with objects in Homeric epic. Those interested in male liminality will also find this book useful, due to the inclusion of Odysseus and Hephaestus. The book might also serve as an excellent starting point for further examinations of the relationship between humans and objects in Homer. Andrea Pittard, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

O autorze

Lilah Grace Canevaro is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. She has been a Leverhulme Fellow in Edinburgh and a Humboldt Fellow in Heidelberg, and gained her PhD at Durham University in 2012. She is the author of Hesiod's Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (OUP, 2015) and co-editor with Paola Bassino and Barbara Graziosi of Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry (CUP, 2017).