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Shameless : the canine and the feminine in the ancient Greece : with a new preface and appendix by Cristiana Franco; Matthew Fox is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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The figure of the dog is a paradox. As in so many cultures, past and present, the dog in ancient Greece was seen as the animal closest to humans, even as it elicited from them the most negative representations. Still a loaded term today, the word <i>bitch</i> not only signified shamelessness and a lack of self-control but was also exclusively figured as female. Woman and dogs in the Greek imagination were intimately intertwined, and in this careful, engaging analysis, Cristiana Franco explores t
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cristiana Franco; Matthew Fox
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520957428
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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