![]() ![]() ![]() The original essay used untranslated Greek and for the purpose of publication I use Thelma Sargent's The Homeric Hymns: A Verse Translation published in 1975 as the source of the poetic text that I quote. This essay comprises about half of the original and I have altered it only slightly to improve it, but I have not changed the argument in any major way. This work has sat in my drawers for all these decades because at the time there was nowhere to put out such a work. In 1981, I wrote a 10,000 word thesis entitled 'Women and Power: A Feminist Reading of the Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite and Demeter'. Initially it was Modern Greek but after a year of so I decided to learn Ancient Greek as my passion for mythic stories exploded. Travelling to Crete really turned my head and upon returning to Australia I decided to learn Greek. I was a young feminist and had read Helen Diner's Mothers and Amazons and while in Greece I read up on the Greek Myths. ![]()
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