The Distaff Side

"The essays collected in The Distaff Side provide a useful addition to the sizeable new literature on females in the Odyssey. The essays have been thoughtfully edited, and can be read with profit by undergraduates as well as by their instructors. All Greek is translated, obscurities are explained, and technical and theoretical terminology avoided."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Beautifully produced....The essays reveal wide research, good thinking, and sound scholarship."--Choice "This lively assortment of scholarly perspectives is well-researched and attentive to literary and artistic nuance, an authoritative work that will provoke scholars of women's history as well as classicists, art historians, and teachers of The Odyssey."--Religious Studies Review "Very intelligent, accessible tour around women in the Odyssey....First-rate introduction to the subject."--Sophie Mills, U.N.C. "[T]he volume constitutes a unique collection of outstanding articles on every aspect of the feminine in the Odyssey."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies "The essays collected in The Distaff Side provide a useful addition to the sizeable new literature on females in the Odyssey. The essays have been thoughtfully edited, and can be read with profit by undergraduates as well as by their instructors. All Greek is translated, obscurities are explained, and technical and theoretical terminology avoided."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review "Beautifully produced....The essays reveal wide research, good thinking, and sound scholarship."--Choice "This lively assortment of scholarly perspectives is well-researched and attentive to literary and artistic nuance, an authoritative work that will provoke scholars of women's history as well as classicists, art historians, and teachers of The Odyssey."--Religious Studies Review "Very intelligent, accessible tour around women in the Odyssey....First-rate introduction to the subject."--Sophie Mills, U.N.C. "[T]he volume constitutes a unique collection of outstanding articles on every aspect of the feminine in the Odyssey."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies "Well put together and very readable. I was so engaged by the arguments in these essays that I found myself asking questions as I read as though the authors might hear and respond. The unifying themes are evident; the scholarship is clear; the plates are illustrative. The authors are clearly familiar with each other's work and respectful of other ideas." Cloelia