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Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult
by Deborah Lyons
Publisher: Princeton University Press 1996
ISBN/ASIN: 0691011001
ISBN-13: 9780691011004
Number of pages: 288
Description:
Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. The book discusses heroines both in relation to heroes and as a separate religious and mythic phenomenon.