Shameless: The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece by Cristiana Franco

By Cristiana Franco

The determine of the puppy is a paradox. As in such a lot of cultures, earlier and current, the puppy in historic Greece used to be obvious because the animal closest to people, at the same time it elicited from them the main destructive representations. nonetheless a loaded time period this day, the note bitch not just signified shamelessness and an absence of self-discipline yet was once additionally completely figured as lady. lady and canine within the Greek mind's eye have been in detail intertwined, and during this cautious, attractive research, Cristiana Franco explores the ancients' advanced courting with either. through reading the connection among people and canine as depicted in an unlimited array of myths, proverbs, spontaneous metaphors, and comedian jokes, Franco specifically indicates how the symbolic overlap among puppy and lady supplied the conceptual instruments to take care of female subordination.

Intended for basic readers in addition to students, Shameless extends the bounds of classics and anthropology, forming a version of the delicate paintings that may be performed to light up how deeply animals are imbricated in human heritage. The English translation has been revised and accelerated from the unique Italian variation, and it contains a new methodological appendix through the writer that issues the best way towards destiny paintings within the rising box of human-animal studies.

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