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Women & Weasels: Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome

Maurizio Bettini and Emlyn Eisenach

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780226044743

Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: January 2014

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226039961.001.0001

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The Rescuer

The Rescuer

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(p.92) [7] The Rescuer
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Women & Weasels
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Maurizio Bettini

Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226039961.003.0008

This chapter considers the Resolution of Alcmene's story involving a weasel. It looks for possible connections between the weasel's cultural identity and its role in Alcmene's story as the helper of a woman in labor. It also discusses the relevance of the weasel's methods of conceiving and giving birth.

Keywords:   Alcmene, childbirth, animals, weasel, labor, cultural identity

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