Core archetypes of women in ancient history are traced in this book, like Eve, Pandora, Hecate, Medea, Medusa and Alcestis. It shows how their powerful stories became examples that composers of opera, novelists, and screenwriters have rewitten.
- ISBN10 0060925027
- ISBN13 9780060925024
- Publish Date 20 February 1995 (first published 1 August 1993)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 28 October 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperSanFrancisco
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English