The Wives of Herr Bear
Julia Briggs: Jane Harrison, 21 September 2000
The Invention of Jane Harrison
by Mary Beard.
Harvard, 229 pp., £23.50, July 2000,0 674 00212 1 Show More
by Mary Beard.
Harvard, 229 pp., £23.50, July 2000,
“... by ideas of purity and danger, ancient matriarchal powers and the anger of the vengeful dead. Mary Beard is suspicious of such over-simplifications, however. Hers is an anti-biography, which confronts previous versions of Harrison’s life: Sandra Peacock’s hagiography of 1988, which read the work as determined by personal feeling, and the more ... ”