Women and Weasels: Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome

by Maurizio Bettini (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2013

  $71.26

  The connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles' birth - and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. With various symbolic associations between weasels and women, the author brings to life one of the most enduring myths of Western culture.