ISBN:
9780191019500
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
398.352
Keywords:
Amazons
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Scholars have long been divided over whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Postcolonial Amazons offers a ground-breaking re-evaluation of the place of martial women in antiquity, bridging the gap between myth and reality by expanding our conception of the Amazon archetype to include the real female warriors of the ancient world.
Abstract:
Cover -- Postcolonial Amazons: Female Masculinity and Courage in Ancient Greek and Sanskrit Literature -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- THE AMAZONS -- ORIENTALISM AND AMAZONS -- ORIENTALISM AND MATRIARCHY -- FEMALE MASCULINITY -- WOMEN, BARBARIANS, AND THE SUBALTERN -- CULTURAL HYBRIDITY AND ANCIENT GENDER PERCEPTIONS -- LOOKING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE: "AMAZONS" AND INDIA -- FROM VENTRILOQUISM TO PROVINCIALIZING ATHENS -- 1: Female masculinity and courage in ancient Greek thought -- Greek gender ideology, war, and masculine behavior in women -- The masculinity of Clytemnestra -- Clytemnestra, myths of matriarchy, and the ``Amazon Complex´´ -- Female masculinity, defiance, and loyalty: Electra and Antigone -- Courage and gender variance in the Hippocratic corpus: the medical writer´s view of female masculinity -- Women´s andreia in Socratic philosophy and beyond: Plato, Perictione, Aristotle, and Phintys -- Andreia in a Hellenistic context: the Septuagint on the virtuous woman and the anonymous catalog Women Intelligent and Cour... -- Musonius: continuing the Socratic tradition with a Hellenistic twist -- Plutarch on courageous women -- Peloponnesian women and war -- Female masculinity and sexuality in ancient Greek thought -- Conclusion -- 2: Orientalized Amazons: From imagined to historical warrior women -- Modern literary approaches to the Amazons -- Amazon studies in the wake of structuralism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism -- Amazons and anachronism -- The ancient Greek belief in Amazons -- The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat -- The entertainment value of Amazons -- Amazons and female homoeroticism -- Amazons as suppliants and parthenoi -- Amazons as Thracians, Scythians, and Persians -- Imaginary Scythians and Amazons.
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