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| Series foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of illustrations | |
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| Why Athena? | |
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| Introducing Athena | |
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| Who was Athena? | |
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| Confronting diversity | |
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| Athena and her attributes | |
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| The scope of this book | |
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| Note on spelling and translations | |
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| Key Themes | |
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| The Birth of Athena | |
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| Introduction: hardly a headache | |
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| Antecedents | |
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| Capturing the moment | |
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| Cosmic terror: the Homeric Hymn to Athena | |
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| The succession myth and the defeat of the mother | |
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| Overview | |
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| Tracing Athena's Origins | |
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| Introduction: do origins matter? | |
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| Athena, matriarchy and the goddess movement | |
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| Bachofen and 'mother-right' | |
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| 'Snake' and 'shield goddess' | |
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| Criticising the matriarchy myth | |
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| Warrior goddesses of the ancient world: ancestresses of Athena? | |
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| Overview | |
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| From Origins to Functions: Athena in the Pantheon | |
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| Introduction: confronting the pantheon | |
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| The 'new way': the functionalist paradigm | |
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| Athena and Poseidon: the horse and the sea | |
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| Athena and Hephaistos: skilled craft | |
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| Athena and Ares: war | |
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| Overview: a key to Athena? | |
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| Heroes, Heroines and the Trojan War | |
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| Introduction: helping friends, harming enemies | |
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| Heroes on quests | |
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| Odysseus and Herakles | |
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| 'The Zeus-born Trojan girl' | |
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| Mythic females: helping men, harming women | |
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| Overview | |
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| Athena in Athens: Patron, Symbol and 'Mother' | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Athena, Zeus and social cohesion | |
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| Poseidon and the contest for the land | |
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| Athena's 'children': the story of the birth of Erichthonios | |
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| Overview | |
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| Early Athenian History | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The 'Mistress of At(h)ana' and the Mycenaean palace | |
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| The synoecism | |
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| 566 and all that: the sixth century | |
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| The Persian invasion | |
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| Overview | |
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| All About Athena? The Classical Akropolis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| After the wars | |
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| Unity and imperialism | |
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| Prettifying the city: the Parthenon | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Wider Greek World | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Moving beyond Athens | |
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| Sparta: the bronze house and the bells | |
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| Argos: 'clear-sighted Athena' | |
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| Arcadia: a fertility goddess? | |
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| Delphi and elsewhere: the conception and protection of children | |
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| Assimilations: Anat and Minerva | |
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| Overview: a multiplicity of Athenas? | |
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| Athena Afterwards | |
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| From Being to Image: The Rise of Christianity and the Postclassical World | |
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| Introduction: moving beyond antiquity | |
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| From pagan abomination to ethical symbol | |
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| Allegory and symbolism | |
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| Literary Athenas | |
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| Feminism and gender theory | |
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| Overview | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Works cited | |
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| Index | |