But no, the Greek goddess Circe who turned Odysseus' companions into pigs and pigs is not a wicked witch!
She was, on the contrary, a learned woman who explained to the hero of
the Odyssey
how to return home.
Normalian, aggregated in classics, Laure de Chantal wants to resituate the place of women in mythology and show how contemporary they are.
She publishes
Free as a Greek Goddess
(Stock).
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LE FIGARO.
- In your book, you denounce the number of clichés, in particular on women, in mythology.
What are they?
Laure de CHANTAL
.- The typical cliché relates to Juno, queen of the gods and of the sky in Roman mythology.
She is both the sister and the wife of Jupiter or Zeus, for the Greeks.
Traditionally, Juno is always presented as a jealous, angry woman.
We are in vaudeville.
However, if we look at the texts in Latin or Greek, we see that his anger is legitimate.
Not only does her husband keep cheating on her...
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