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Greek Mythology and Religion

Centaurs and Amazons

Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being

by Page duBois

A study of how Greek myth and art used centaurs, Amazons and other boundary figures to define the place of the Greek male citizen. DuBois reads the centauromachy and related myths as expressions of a developing hierarchy of beings.

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