Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth

Women''s mobility is central to understanding cultural constructions of gender. Regarding ancient cultures, including ancient Greece, a re-evaluation of women''s mobility within the household and beyond it is currently taking place. This invites an informed analysis of female mobility in Greek myth, under the premise that myth may open a venue to social ideology and the imaginary. offers the first comprehensive analysis of this topic. It presents close readings of ancient texts, engaging with feminist thought and the ''mobility turn''. A variety of Olympian goddesses and mortal heroines are explored, and the analysis of their myths follows specific chronological considerations. Female mobility is presented in quite diverse ways in myth, reflecting cultural flexibility in imagining mobile goddesses and heroines. At the same time, the out-of-doors spaces that mortal heroines inhabit seem to lack a public or civic quality, with the heroines being contained behind ''glass walls''. In this respect, myth seems to reproduce the cultural limitations of ancient Greek social ideology on mobility, inviting us to reflect not only on the limits of mythic imagination but also on the timelessness of Greek myth.>

About the author

Ariadne Konstantinou is a Teaching Fellow in the department of Classical Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She completed her PhD in Classics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and has since held annual postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto, Canada, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Ariadne Konstantinou, Ariadne (Post-Doctoral Fellow Konstantinou, Dr Ariadne (Post-Doctoral Fellow Konstantinou
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781474256766
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-5676-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Criminal Practice Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Classical texts, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient History, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)