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Mary R. Lefkowitz is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities emerita at Wellesley College and coeditor of Women's Life in Greece and Rome, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Preface to Second Edition | p. ix |
Preface to First Edition | p. xv |
Princess Ida and the Amazons | p. 1 |
The Powers of the Primeval Goddesses | p. 14 |
The Heroic Women of Greek Epic | p. 25 |
Chosen Women | p. 42 |
Seduction and Rape | p. 54 |
"Predatory" Goddesses | p. 70 |
The Last Hours of the Parthenos | p. 82 |
Women in the Panathenaic and Other Festivals | p. 95 |
Women without Men | p. 106 |
Wives | p. 122 |
Influential Women | p. 139 |
Martyrs | p. 153 |
Misogyny | p. 168 |
Epilogue | p. 186 |
List of Abbreviations | p. 191 |
Notes | p. 193 |
References | p. 219 |
Index | p. 233 |
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