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The Feminine Personification of Wisdom: A Study of Homer's Penelope, Cappadocian Macrina, Boethius' Philosophia and Dante's Beatrice
Author(s): Wendy E. Helleman (Author)
- Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 348 pages
- ISBN-10: 0773446664
- ISBN-13: 9780773446663
Book Description
This study examines the attribution of abstract values to women by analyzing four characters spanning literary genres and more than 2000 years. Feminine personification of reason and wisdom makes its own contribution as antidote to traditional understanding of “feminine” as “emotional” or “irrational”.
