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Power, Courtly Love, And A Lack Of Heirs : Guinevere And Medieval Queens, Jessica Grady
Power, Courtly Love, And A Lack Of Heirs : Guinevere And Medieval Queens, Jessica Grady
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Authors have given Queen Guinevere of the Arthurian stories a wide variety of personalities; she has been varyingly portrayed as seductive, faithful, “fallen,” powerful, powerless, weak-willed, strong-willed, even as an inheritor of a matriarchal tradition. These personalities span eight centuries and are the products of their respective times and authors much more so than of any historical Guinevere. Despite this, however, threads of similarity run throughout many of the portrayals: she had power in some areas and none in others; she was involved in a courtly romance; and she did not produce an heir to the throne. None of these …
Greek And Pre-Greek Oath : The Importance Of Styx, Marianina Demetri Olcott
Greek And Pre-Greek Oath : The Importance Of Styx, Marianina Demetri Olcott
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This paper seeks to prove that in pre-Greek oaths and truth-tests , liturgy associated with this religious stratum did not have libations as the primary ritual feature. Rather, from an examination of a variety of textual sources we uncover evidence not only that Styx and Demeter are aspects of the same pre- Greek female deity but also that pre-Greek oaths may have been associated with certain stones rather than merely libations.