Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
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Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India

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Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In Splitting the Difference, the renowned scholar of mythology Wendy Doniger recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India, with occasional recourse to more r...more
Paperback, 383 pages
Published April 15th 1999 by University of Chicago Press
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