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The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man

by Nicole Loraux

Tiresias was the Greek shepherd struck with blindness on seeing Athena's naked body; Loraux uses this image as a metaphor for the subject of this book, the ambivalence in the self-definition of Greek men in relation to women. She shows that the `official' version, of wholly masculine, virile men free from any feminine traits did not reflect reality, and that epic and Socrates demonstrate a logic of more inclusiveness between the genders. Another fascinating, sometimes controversial book from `..a pioneer in the analysis of gender difference and sexuality in classical Greece..' - Choice. 348p (Princeton UP 1990, Pb 1995)

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