The Myth of Persephone: Body Objectification from Ancient to Modern

Implications surrounding body ownership prove to be an enduring struggle from their prevalence in ancient literary sources through more modern, contemporary works. I analyze the notions of body ownership and its lack thereof set forth in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Homeric “Hymn to Demeter” regardi...

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Main Author: Daifotis, Melanie
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2017
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1529
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2506&context=cmc_theses