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Beginning with a detailed study of Homer's balance of negative and positive elements in the Circe-Odysseus myth, Judith Yarnall employs text and illustrations to demonstrate how Homer's Circe is connected with age-old traditions of goddess worship. She then examines how the image of a one-sided "witch," who first appeared in the commentary of Homer's allegorical interpreters, proved remarkably persistent, influencing Virgil and Ovid. Yarnall concludes with a discussion of work by Margaret Atwood and Eudora Welty in which the enchantress at last speaks in her own voice: that of a woman isolated by, but unashamed of, her power. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
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- Contributor: Judith Yarnall
- Imprint: University of Illinois Press
- ISBN13: 9780252063565
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x23mm
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Release Date: 1994-02-01
- Binding: Paperback / softback
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