American Women and Classical Myths

Gregory A. Staley (Ph.D. Princeton University) is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park and a Rome Prize Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

Introduction: The Book of Myths Gregory A. Staley Part I: American Women 1. Examples of Classical Myth in the Poems of Phillis Wheatley Julian Mason 2. Margaret Fuller and Her Timeless Friends Marie Cleary 3. H.D., Daughter of Helen: Mythology as Actuality Sheila Murnaghan 4. Those Two or Three Human Stories: Willa Cather, Classical Myth, and the New World Epic Mary R. Ryder 5. Edith Hamilton and Greco-Roman Mythology Judith P. Hallett Part II: Classical Myths 6. Liberating Woman: Athena as Cultural Icon in the United States Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch 7. Victorian Antigone: Classicism and Women's Education in America, 1840-1900 Caroline Winterer 8. The Figure of Penelope in Twentieth-Century Poetry by American Women Lillian E. Doherty 9. The Amazons: Wonder Women in America Gregory A. Staley Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index

In this beautiful volume, scholarship and storytelling make a fine home together. -Susan Ford Wiltshire, Professor of Classics, Chair Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University This volume is distinguished by a specific focus on the United States, and in particular on women's interaction with classical mythology.... American Women and Classical Myths is recommended for information on women's contribution to the history of Classics in the United States, as well as for a study of the reception of female figures from Classical mythology. -- International Journal of Classical Tradition