====== Premodern Primary Source Material - Classical Greek and Norse Mythology ======
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===== Rationale =====

In looking at female and non-binary representations of "warrior women" in classical mythology, we see the origins of the archetypes that will become modern comic book iterations. There are themes and tropes that dominate various mythos. From Greek and Norse mythology we see the influence on western European literature and arts, and the perpetuation of stereotypes about warrior women, themes and tropes dealing with the female breast, and in general, marking these characters as //other// warriors, per the Simone de Beauvoir definition. We also gained the concept of the tragedy and comedy from their culture, most importantly the concepts of peripeteia and hamartia. In both Greek and Norse mythology, these women serve the gods as soldiers or angels of death. 
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===== Greek/Roman Mythology =====

Aeschylus [[The Oresteia]] 

[[Aethiopis]]

Appolonius of Rhodes [[The Argonautica]]

Aristophanes [[Lysistrata]]

Euripedes [[Heracles]]
 
---[[Hippolytus]]

---[[Medea]]

Fawkes, Glynnis [[The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths]]

-- [[Herais/Diophantos]] 

-- [[Psyche and Cupid]]

[[Geary, Patrick J.]] Women at the Beginning- Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary  

[[https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Figures/Amazons/amazons.html|greekmythology.com. “Amazons”]]

[[Fry, Stephen]] Mythos

[[Fry, Stephen Heroes]]

Hemingway, Colette "[[Greek and Roman Sculpture]]"

[[Homer]] 

--[[The Iliad]]

--[[The Odyssey]]

[[von Kleist, Heinrich]] Penthesilea

“[[Marble Statue of a Wounded Amazon]],” Artist unknown, Imperial/1st-2nd century C.E.(Roman)

[[Myron, Adrian]] Greek Mythology- Tales of Greek Myth, Gods, Goddesses, Mythical Beasts 
and the Beliefs of Ancient Greece

[[Nardo, Don]] Greek Mythology

[[Ovid Metamorphoses - Perseus]]

[[Nijinksy, Vaslav]] Afternoon of a Faun (ballet)

[[Rothery, Guy Cadogan]] The Amazons

[[Sappho]] “Sappho” (collection of poetry, Norton's Anth.)

[[Slater, Phillip Elliot]] The Glory of Hera- A Greek Mythology and the Greek Family, 
Princeton

Sophocles [[Oedipus the King]]

[[Virgil]] The Aeneid

[[Woodard, Roger D.]] The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

[[Wilde, Lyn Webster]] A Brief History of the Amazons Women Warriors in Myth and History

[[Women of Note in Greek Myth]]


===== Norse Mythology =====

[[Anonymous]] Story of the Volsungs- The Volsunga Saga

[[Brown, Abbie Farewell]] Norse Mythology: Tales of the Gods, Sagas, and Heroes

[[Crawford, Jackson]] The Poetic Edda- Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

[[Crossley-Holland, Kevin]] The Norse Myths.

[[Donahue, Charles]] “The Valkyries and the Irish War-Goddesses” 

[[Friðriksdóttir, Jóhanna Katrín]] Valkyrie- The Women of the Viking World 

[[Gaiman, Neil]] Norse Mythology 

[[Guerber, H. A.]] Myths of the Norsemen- From the Eddas and Sagas

[[Led Zeppelin]] “The Immigrant Song.”

[[Lindow, John]] Norse Mythology- A Guide to Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs

[[Searfoss, Glenn]] Cycles of Norse Mythology: Tales of the Aesir Gods

[[Self, Kathleen M.]] “The Valkyrie’s Gender- Old Norse Shield-Maidens and Valkyries as a 
Third Gender.” 

[[Wagner, Richard]] Die Walkure (opera)