The women who are currently rewriting female characters in myth on the basis that women have been marginalised and silenced are themselves ignoring the long history of women’s writing. .............. [And I remembered] the fate of Minyas’ daughters - Cornina* Feminist rewritings of women from Greek myth are popular in publishing right now. In 1997 I wrote my Master's thesis in Classical Receptions on Christa Wolf’s 1983 novel, Cassandra . Since then, I have maintained a list of popular rewritings of Greek myth from Ovid to now. There were ten published in 2017, nine in 2018, ten in 2019, six in 2020, 21 in 2021, eighteen in 2022, 24 in 2023 and fifteen in 2024. Among the approximately two hundred I have itemised, the quality is variable. Many of these novels written by women claim to be, or are reviewed as, feminist. But are they? What criteria are we using to judge the success of a rewriting, and whether the result is feminist? These rewritings are revie...
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