The One We’d Like to Meet
Margaret Anne Doody: Myth, 6 July 2000
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
by Wendy Doniger.
Chicago, 376 pp., £43.95, June 1999,0 226 15640 0 Show More
by Wendy Doniger.
Chicago, 376 pp., £43.95, June 1999,
The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
by Wendy Doniger.
Columbia, 212 pp., £11.50, October 1999,0 231 11171 1 Show More
by Wendy Doniger.
Columbia, 212 pp., £11.50, October 1999,
“... or goddesses get raped? Can beauty become vile? Such problems are raised by Helen of Troy, wife of King Menelaus, and by Sita, wife of Rama. Their stories (in multiple versions) are entertainingly retold and analysed by Wendy Doniger, a professor of the history of religions and of South-East Asian languages and civilisations. As Doniger – who can read ... ”