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Article: Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- April 1, 2005
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Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece
Corinne Ondine Pache
U. of Illinois Press
1325 South Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820-6903
dwilberg@uillinois.edu
ISBN 0252029291 $40.00 234+x pp.
Baby and child figures in Greek mythology have been virtually ignored in favor of the outsized, colorful, or complex adult characters, But Pache--assistant professor of classics at Yale U.--discloses from research of Greek literary works and monuments, coins, vases, and other archaeological relics that young, often little more than infant, characters had an essential part in Greek mythology. Mostly, ...