Daughters of Hecate Women and Magic in the Ancient World
Daughters of Hecate Women and Magic in the Ancient World
- ISBN 13:
9780195342710
- ISBN 10:
0195342712
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/03/2014
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The authors probe the foundations of, processes, and motivations behind gendered stereotypes, beginning with Western culture's earliest associations of women and magic in the Bible and Homer's Odyssey. Daughters of Hecate provides a nuanced exploration of the topic while avoiding reductive approaches. In fact, the essays in this volume uncover complexities and counter-discourses that challenge, rather than reaffirm, many gendered stereotypes taken for granted and reified by most modern scholarship.
By combining critical theoretical methods with research into literary and material evidence, Daughters of Hecate interrogates a false association that has persisted from antiquity, to early modern witch hunts, to the present day.