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goukdes Athena's len and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypawed maternity, In thewe eways, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fth century forged and maintained a collee tive identity. In particular, she reveal the peculus of women in Ath ens, whose "citizenship or even manity meant ver little in political con texts but was crucial in religious cul and in Attic trenedy and comedy "A model for integrating the study of the feminine