Promethean Women

Promethean WomenMiranda Seymour Both Mary Wollstonecraft, darling of twentieth-century feminists, and her visionary daughter Mary Shelley continue to influence us today. February 25, 2021 issueSubmit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.comReviewed: Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics by Sylvana Tomaselli Princeton University Press, 230 pp., $29.95 Artificial Life After Frankenstein by Eileen Hunt Botting University of Pennsylvania Press, 258 pp., $34.95 Frankenstein: The 1818 Edi...

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Mythology and Symbolism an exploration of the stories that guide us and the symbols that inspire us Menu Widgets Search Skip to content HomeAbout Search for: Recent Posts Not Quite the Glory of Hera Hold on, the cauldron’s overflowing, where’s the mop? Not Until Her Brothers Are Avenged Raised by a W...

The Figure of Prometheus and the Origins of Civilization | The Rutherford Journal

The Figure of Prometheus and the Origins of Civilization Robin Bond Introduction The focus of the studies of the vast majority of classical scholars is on what might broadly be described as the humanities—the various literary genres brought to a state of perfection by the ancient Greeks, the epic poetry of Homer, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, for example, or the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the historical works of Herodotus and Thucydide...