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<new recto> Contents Preface 000 Introduction 000 Chapter One: Pandora's Light 1. Pandora, Once Again 000 2. The Genealogy of Pandora 000 3. Misogynist Responses to Pandora 000 4. Pandora's Wonder 000 a. Pandora as the Theogony's center 000 b. Feminine beauty and the beauty of the universe 000 c. Thauma Idesthai 000 d. Pandora vs. Typhoeus 000 e. Pandora's bright light vs. Zeus's blinding lightning 000 f. Pandora's enlightenment and Hesiod's initiation 000 Chapter Two: Pandora and the Myth of Otherness 1. From Mount Helicon to a Poetics of Otherness 000 2. The Fantasy of Symbiosis between Men and Gods 000 3. Ambiguities of Identity: The Case of Brothers 000 4. The Loss of Sameness and the Birth of Eros 000 5. The Didactic Imperative: Learn the Other 000 Chapter Three: The Socratic Pandora 1. Woman is the Ideal Listener 000 2. The Naked Truth and the Adorned Lie 000 a. The winter maiden 000 b. The dressed woman 000 3. The Seductions of Pandora 000 4. Socrates and Theodote 000 5. Socrates and Pandora 000 a. Socrates's body 000 b. Socrates's beauty 000 c. Socrates's eros 000 Chapter Four: Pandora's Voice and the Emergence of Ovid's Poetic Persona 1. Pandora's Voice 000 a. Clytemnestra's Kratos 000 b. Silencing Penelope 000 c. Pandora's comic voice 000 2. From the Effeminate Elegy to the Feminine Text 000 3. The Erotodidactic Persona 000 4. Sappho's Lasciviousness 000 5. The Lascivious Text 000 a. Ovidius Utroque Lascivior 000 b. Musa Proterva mea est 000 Chapter Five: Feminine Subjectivity and the Self-Contradicting Text 1.The Ars and the Remedia: meta-discourse, language games and the problem of sincerity 000 2.The Palinodic Structure 000 3. Palinode and Narrative 000 4. Pandora's Lie 000 5. A Girl's Rape and the Birth of Feminine Subjectivity 000 Chapter Six: Pandora's Tears 1. Feminine Weaving: Text, Textile, Body, Pain 000 2. Helen's Web 000 3. Listening as a Woman: Penelope's Tears 000 4. Odysseus Weeps as a Woman 000 5. Xanthippe's Tears 000 Epilogue 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Pandora (Greek mythology) in literature.
Femininity in literature.
Classical literature -- History and criticism.