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It would be anachronistic to expect the heroines of the tales to act by the same means and in the same ways as the heroes . To illustrate this I shall use ChatziYavrouda's story “ Myrmidonia and Pharaonia " .
It would be anachronistic to expect the heroines of the tales to act by the same means and in the same ways as the heroes . To illustrate this I shall use ChatziYavrouda's story “ Myrmidonia and Pharaonia " .
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All Chatzi - Yavrouda's heroines are good Christians and they are often helped by God . This is also one of the elements that places her stories closer to the reality of the surrounding community . In traditional Greek society the ...
All Chatzi - Yavrouda's heroines are good Christians and they are often helped by God . This is also one of the elements that places her stories closer to the reality of the surrounding community . In traditional Greek society the ...
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The heroines of Chatzi - Yavrouda's tales are , of course , beautiful – would it be a fairy tale if they were not ? But if their beauty plays a role at all it is a negative one because it makes them attractive and thus vulnerable to ...
The heroines of Chatzi - Yavrouda's tales are , of course , beautiful – would it be a fairy tale if they were not ? But if their beauty plays a role at all it is a negative one because it makes them attractive and thus vulnerable to ...
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problems of defining | 1 |
Women and gender roles in Modern Greek folktales | 21 |
a question of | 43 |
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| Title | Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issue 7 |
| Contributor | University of Cambridge. Modern Greek Section |
| Publisher | Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
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