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The Children of Athena
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 …
Mothers in Mourning
"Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period. She investigates the Athenian state's interdiction of ritualized mourning by …
The Experiences of Tiresias
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 Invention of Athens
A revised edition of a groundbreaking work tracing the rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations in ancient Greece, arguing that they served to celebrate the city of …
The Divided City
An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens.Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have …