Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I want to thank the friends, colleagues, and teachers whose support helped me to write this book: the late Robert C. Elliott, whose generosity was boundless and who is sorely missed, Froma Zeitlin, exemplary scholar and friend, Jean-Pierre Vernant, from whom I have learned so much, Alain Renoir, who taught me the difference between humans and human beings, Marcel Detienne, who read the manuscript with great care and gave illuminating counsel, Carol Becker, dear friend, and Shirley Hecht, Saul Steier, Charles Segal, Susan Kirkpatrick, Andrew Wright, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis Montrose, Joseph Fontenrose, and most of all, Bob Edelman. The Committee on Research of the Academic Senate, University of California at San Diego, provided research funds for this study which I gratefully acknowledge; I would also like to thank the University's Office of Graduate Studies and Research for aid in its publication. I am grateful to Susan Walker, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum. The trustees of the British Museum have graciously granted me permission to reproduce photographs of works of art I discuss in the text. Thanks also are due to the librarians of the British Library, of the American School in Athens, of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, and of the University of California's libraries in La Jolla and in Berkeley. Finally, my thanks to John Peradotto, who made many helpful comments on the manuscript, and who as editor of Arethusa has granted me permission to use parts of two essays, "On Horse/Men, Amazons, and Endogamy," Arethusa 12.1 (1979), 35-49, and "On the Invention of Hierarchy," forthcoming. ix ...