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Women and nostoi

This chapter interrogates the literary evidence from the perspective of a social historian, asking and answering the question, ‘why (with a handful of significant exceptions) do women in Greek myths not have nostoi?’ Part of its explanation is that mythical constructions of male and female characters must not contradict fundamental expectations about the behaviour of the sexes in ‘real’ society.