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9782251800172 | Isd, September 15, 2011, cover price $33.00
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9782251380988 | Isd, July 17, 2014, cover price $57.00
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9788446025412 | Akal Ediciones Sa, February 18, 2008, cover price $74.95
One of the world's most renowned classicists here offers a fascinating look at myths of origins and their role in ancient Greek civic ideology. Through a series of critical interpretations of Athenian myths, Nicole Loraux explores the meaning of democracy in its first form, which excluded from its benefits women, slaves, and foreigners. Arguing that these stories have much to tell us about the present and the human condition, her book makes important claims about the role of the past in our understanding of the present. Loraux begins by discussing the Greek fascination with being born from the earth. Myths of autochthony, she asserts, shed important light on attitudes toward both foreigners and women in democratic states. She considers the role demarcated for women by the Pandora myth, according to which women are artificially created out of earth and therefore belong to a race apart. Her analysis also extends to contemporary issues, concluding with the place of the foreigner in democratic societies, ancient and modern. Originally published in France in 1996, Born of the Earth has been superbly translated into English by Selina Stewart.
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9780801434198 | Cornell Univ Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $51.50 | About this edition: One of the world's most renowned classicists here offers a fascinating look at myths of origins and their role in ancient Greek civic ideology.
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9780801484438 | Cornell Univ Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for -- -if not invent -- -amnesty...read more
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9781890951085 | Zone Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Athens, 403 B.
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9781890951092 | Zone Books, April 1, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Athens, 403 B.
Product Description: How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux traces the different rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations--epitaphioi--from Thucidydes, Gorgias, Lysias, and Demosthenes to Plato...read more
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9780674463622 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 1, 1986, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece?
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9781890951597 | Zone Books, March 10, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece?
Product Description: In The Mourning Voice, Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon, infused with Athenian political ideology, which envisions its spectators first and foremost as citizens, members of the political collective...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780801438301 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: In The Mourning Voice, Nicole Loraux presents a radical challenge to what has become the dominant view of tragedy in recent years: that tragedy is primarily a civic phenomenon, infused with Athenian political ideology, which envisions its spectators first and foremost as citizens, members of the political collective.
Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies.
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9781565843769 | New Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | also contains Antiquities | About this edition: Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies.
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9780060233617, titled "Charlotte and the White Horse" | Harpercollins, October 1, 1976, cover price $11.89 | also contains Antiquities, Charlotte and the White Horse
Product Description: "Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period. She investigates the Athenian state's interdiction of ritualized mourning by women, in a city where public mourning constituted a vital act of civic self-definition and solidarity...read more
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9780801430909 | Cornell Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: "Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period.
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9780801482427 | Cornell Univ Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: "Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period.
Product Description: 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...read more
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9780691029856 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: 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.
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9780691605371 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780691017174 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: 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. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity...read more
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9780691032726 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $52.50
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9780691037622 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, August 8, 1994), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780415905060 | Routledge, June 1, 1993, cover price $39.50
Product Description: In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet and exemplary existence as wife and mother. Her glory was to have no glory. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their own fate...read more
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9780674902251 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: Examines the portrayals of women's deaths in ancient Greek drama and discusses the insights they provide into Greek attitudes toward sexuality, gender roles, and death
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9780674902268 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet and exemplary existence as wife and mother.
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