Experiences of Tiresias

Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "e;imaginary,"e; revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence i...