Women of Substance in Homeric Epic

Objects, Gender, Agency

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvLilah Grace Canevaro,University of Edinburgh) Canevaro, Lilah Grace (Lecturer in Greek, Lecturer in Greek

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Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare. However, women in Homeric epic also use objects to negotiate their own agency, subverting the male viewpoint by utilizing on their own terms the very form they themselves are thought by men to embody. Such female objects can transcend their physical limitations and be both symbolically significant and powerfully characterizing. They can be tools of recognition and identification. They can pause narrative and be used agonistically. They can send messages and be vessels for memory.Women of Substance in Homeric Epic offers a new and insightful approach to the Iliad and Odyssey, bringing together Gender Theory and the burgeoning field of New Materialisms, new to classical studies, and thereby combining an approach predicated on the idea of the woman as object with one which questions the very distinction between subject and object. This productive tension leads us to decentre the male subject and to put centre stage not only the woman as object but also the agency of women and objects. The volume comes at a turning point in the gendering of Homeric studies, with the publication of the first English translations by women of the Iliad in 2015 and the Odyssey in 2017, by Caroline Alexander and Emily Wilson respectively. It makes a significant contribution to scholarship by demonstrating that women in Homeric epic are not only objectified, but are also well-versed users of objects; this is something that Homer portrays clearly, that Odysseus understands, but that has often escaped many other men, from Odysseus' alter ego Aethon in Odyssey 19 to modern experts on Homeric epic.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-03
Mått145 x 224 x 25 mm
Vikt538 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198826309

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Lilah Grace Canevaro is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. She has been a Leverhulme Fellow in Edinburgh and a Humboldt Fellow in Heidelberg, and gained her PhD at Durham University in 2012. She is the author of Hesiod's Works and Days: How to Teach Self-Sufficiency (OUP, 2015) and co-editor with Paola Bassino and Barbara Graziosi of Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry (CUP, 2017).

FrontmatterList of IllustrationsAbbreviations0: Introduction: The Proggy Mat1: How Far Are We from a Hot Bath?1.1: Women, Objects, Things1.2: Society and Sandals1.3: The Memory of Objects2: The Politics of Objects2.1: Words and Weaving2.2: Stuck in the Middle with You2.3: Managing the House, Managing the Narrative2.4: Gathering the Threads3: Object-Oriented Odysseus3.1: Odysseus in the Middle3.2: Tying the Knot3.3: All Hands on Deck3.4: Here's One I Made Earlier4: Beyond the Veil4.1: Uprights and Subversions4.2: Mortality and Material Memory4.3: When the Gods Move Furniture4.4: Architectural Anxieties5: Uncontainable Things5.1: When Is a Door Not a Door?5.2: Cataloguing Women and Objects6: Epilogue: Revealing GarmentsEndmatterBibliographyIndex

an engaging and accessible book that will be of interest to those studying both women and objects in ancient literary contexts. The innovative approach is a significant contribution to studies of Homeric women, as it provides a more nuanced understanding of female gender roles and expectations in Homer ... This book also contributes to the understanding of how objects operate and how humans interact with objects in Homeric epic. Those interested in male liminality will also find this book useful, due to the inclusion of Odysseus and Hephaestus. The book might also serve as an excellent starting point for further examinations of the relationship between humans and objects in Homer.

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