SOURCE: "The Duality of Helen," in Helen: Myth, Legend, and the Culture of Misogyny, Continuum, 1995, pp. 49-69.
In the following essay, Meagher examines the depiction of women as both goddesses and humans in Greek mythology, specifically in Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days. Meagher notes the ways in which Hesiod subverts earlier oral traditions, in which women were birth goddesses and creators rather than (as in Olympian myths) created by male gods to bring misery and death to human men.
