āThe wolf is a conventional symbol of marginality in Greek poetry. The wolf is an outlaw. He lives beyond the boundary of usefully cultivated and inhabited space marked off as the polis, in that blank no manās land called to apeiron (āthe unboundedā). Women, in the ancient view, share this territory spiritually and metaphorically (ā¦)ā
ā Anne Carson, The Gender of Sound in Glass, Irony and God (via and-staurran)













