SOURCE: Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, Princeton University Press, 1997, 269 p.
In the following essay, Lyons argues that archaic texts, including the works of Homer and Hesiod, include a feminine form of the idea of the "hero." Lyons reviews the traditional criteria used to identify heroes in texts, applies the same criteria to heroines, and identifies several heroines that satisfy those qualifications.
