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- The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
- The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Editions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The New Father of Anaxagoras
- 3 The Thigh Birth of Dionysus
- 4 From Myth to Metaphor
- 5 Blepyrus’s Turd-Child and the Birth of Athena
- 6 The Pregnant Philosopher
- 7 Reading Plato’s Midwife
- Appendix I Did Any Thinker before Democritus Argue for the Existence of Female “Seed”?
- Appendix II Women and Men as Grammatical Subjects of τίκτω
- Works Cited
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2012
- The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
- The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Editions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The New Father of Anaxagoras
- 3 The Thigh Birth of Dionysus
- 4 From Myth to Metaphor
- 5 Blepyrus’s Turd-Child and the Birth of Athena
- 6 The Pregnant Philosopher
- 7 Reading Plato’s Midwife
- Appendix I Did Any Thinker before Democritus Argue for the Existence of Female “Seed”?
- Appendix II Women and Men as Grammatical Subjects of τίκτω
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012