Women in Greek Myth Author:Mary R. Lefkowitz Modern feminism often takes Greek mythology as reflecting a world in which men dominate women, mainly through tear of their sexuality. Amazons represent original matriarchy suppressed by male conspiracy; Clytemnestra is a neglected wife and frustrated individualist; Antigone a Greenham-Common-style oppressed revolutionary. Mary Lefkowitz, howeve... more »r, in this sensible and stimulating volume, shows that such interpretations hardly match our documentary evidence for the myths. Concentrating on particular aspects of women's experience -- life apart from men, marriage, influence on politics, self-sacrifice, martyrdom, misogyny -- she offers a less negative account of the role of women in Greek literature, concluding that what Greek amen feared in women was not so much their sexuality as their intelligence. Greek mythology is perhaps ancient Greece's most enduring legacy. Lefkowitz's fresh and lucid assessment of it is of interest not just to undergraduates, sixth-formers and their teachers, but also to those far beyond the confines of Classical scholarship.« less