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A new collection of essays considers how the villainous women of classical antiquity resonate in contemporary Western society. Nora McGreevy. Monsters reveal more about humans than one might think. As figments of the imagination, the alien, creepy-crawly, fanged, winged and otherwise-terrifying creatures that populate myths have long helped societies define cultural boundaries and answer an age-old question: What counts as human, and what counts as monstrous?
In the classical Greek and Roman myths that pervade Western lore today, a perhaps surprising number of these creatures are coded as women. The myths then, to a certain extent, fulfill a male fantasy of conquering and controlling the female. Ancient male authors inscribed their fear of—and desire for—women into tales about monstrous females : In his first-century A.
Both are described as unambiguously female. Medusa struck fear into ancient hearts because she was both deceptively beautiful and hideously ugly; Charybdis terrified Odysseus and his men because she represented a churning pit of bottomless hunger. In this essay collection, newly published by Beacon Press, she reexamines the monsters of antiquity through a feminist lens.
Though fearsome female monsters pop up in cultural traditions worldwide, Zimmerman chose to focus on ancient Greek and Roman antiquity, which have been impressed on American culture for generations. What if, instead of fearing these ancient monsters, contemporary readers embraced them as heroes in their own right? Scylla—a six-headed, twelve-legged creature with necks that extend to horrible lengths and wolf-like heads that snatch and eat unsuspecting sailors—resides in a clifftop cave.