Scholarly Articles

Mary L. Lefkowitz

American Scholar

This article is a description of how the female experience was portrayed. Lefkowitz also explains how the poet's portrayals are less confining and more balanced than many people give them credit for.

Mary R. Lefkowitz

American Scholar

Lefkowitz explains how, through their ability to conceive without male intervention, the goddesses hold power that the gods lack. The article also describes how this power is often used to retaliate against those that have wronged the goddesses.

Gillian M. E. Alban

Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal

In several writings, there is an archetype where Medusa becomes a symbol of female psychic power. This essay explores this pattern.

Kerri J. Hame

Classical Philology

This essay is an in depth discussion of how Greek tragedies portray the women's role in funeral rights.

Ariadne Konstantinou

American Journal of Philosophy

Through the characterization of Hestia and Eos, this article explores the interaction of mobility and sexuality in Greek myth.

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Jessica Elbert Deck

Women's Studies

This article is a discussion of misogyny, as shown through the women of Greek mythology.

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Nancy R. Felson

Studies in Gender and Sexuality

Through the exploration of other articles, Felson explains and demonstrates how to appropriate myths for psychoanalytic analyses

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