Cover of the volume 11 of the Journal Amaltea
Vol. 11 (2019): Myth and Women: Virtuous and Perverse
Published: 2019-08-07

For reasons which various sciences have explained for many decades, women have been historically considered a paradigm of virtue or perversion. In literature, art allergic to transparency, these feminine stereotypes have often been conveyed through mythical stories. In this issue of Amaltea, our authors study the relationship between myth and women, paying particular attention to the moral perception of the latter (sometimes virtuous, at other times perverse), in literature and art since 1900.