(Paperback)

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. This title explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.

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Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing At

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This book contains the critical texts that embody the radical political transformation in both methodology and thematics in classics since 1945. Seminal texts by Gernet, Vernant and Vidal-Naquet and Detienne, among others, provide perspectives on topics such as society, politics, myth and gender.