The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes

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Nicole Loraux Caroline Levine

The Children of Athena

Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes

Nicole Loraux, Caroline Levine, Froma I. Zeitlin

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French

Princeton University Pres
28 August 1994

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; European history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Social & cultural history; Gender studies, gender groups

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. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.

By: Nicole Loraux
Foreword by: Froma I. Zeitlin
Translated by: Caroline Levine
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9780691037622
ISBN 10: 0691037620
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 28 August 1994
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes

[This] book is provocative, original, subtle, and scholarly, and offers important general lessons about the functioning of Athenian myth, religion, literature, and culture... This translation ... will certainly help more people to see ... why Loraux has achieved 'classic status' in [her field]. --Simon Goldhill, Bryn Mawr Classical Review A manifesto for a historian's reading of myths in their civic contexts. --L'Histoire This is a great book of the historian's imagination, of the capacity to imagine how the players of a long-gone civilization thought and reacted... [A] brilliant book. --Quinzaine LittZraire ... continues to occupy a central and provocative place in current discussion... The text is also admirably lucid and pleasant to read... The Children of Athena may be read with profit by anyone. To those who have not encountered it, I recommend it highly. --Charles W. Hedrick, Jr., Journal of the History of Sexuality