Table of Contents

Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard: Introduction
I. Myth and Psychoanalysis
Rachel Bowlby: Hope, Promise, Threaten, and Swear: Psychoanalytic Myths of the Future for Boys and Girls
Vanda Zajko: `Who are we when we read?' Keats, Klein, Cixous, and Elizabeth Cook's Achilles
Griselda Pollock: Beyond Oedipus: Feminist Thought, Psychoanalysis, and Mythical Figurations of the Feminine
2. Myth and Politics
Miriam Leonard: Lacan, Irigaray, and Beyond: Antigones and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
Simon Goldhill: Antigone and the Politics of Sisterhood
Katie Fleming: Fascism on Stage: Jean Anouilh's Antigone
3. Myth and History
Ellen O'Gorman: A Woman's History of Warfare
Greg Staley: Beyond glorious Ocean': Feminism, Myth, and America
4. Myth and Science
Duncan Kennedy: Atoms, Individuals, and Myths
Alison Sharrock: The Philosopher and the Mother Cow: Towards a Gendered Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Genevieve Liveley: Science Fictions and Cyber Myths: Or, Do Cyborgs Dream of Dolly the Sheep?
5. Myth and Poetry
Lillian Doherty: Putting the Women Back into the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women
Penny Murray: Reclaiming the Muse
Efi Spentzou: Defying History: The Legacy of Helen in Modern Poetry
Rowena Fowler: `This tart fable': Daphne, Apollo, and Contemporary Women's Poetry
Elizabeth Cook: Iphigeneia's Wedding

About the Author

Vanda Zajko is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol. Miriam Leonard is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.

Reviews

...a unique and well-timed volume...all of the contributions demonstrate originality, creativity and erudition. Judith Fletcher, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ...a good and useful book. Paul Allen Miller, Journal of Hellenic Studies