Warriors’ Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experiences
compares the representations of soldiers’ wives in ancient Greek epic
poetry and tragic drama with the experiences of modern-day military
spouses. In examining the figures of Penelope, Clytemnestra, Andromache,
and Tecmessa—as represented by Homer and the fifth-century-bce
Athenian tragedians—alongside contemporary evidence for the lives of
women who are married to service personnel, it sheds fresh light on the
effects of war on those who are left behind. It traces significant
aspects of the lives of the women who are married to soldiers from the
moment of farewell, through periods of separation and the challenges
they bring, to the reunion and in some cases the traumatic aftermath of
war. In doing so, it considers the ways in which key elements of the
experience of the waiting wife are shaped, today just as much as in the
ancient world, by expectations about gender roles, and it renders
visible the stories of military spouses who have traditionally been
given less attention than their serving partners.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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