(Non)places of vulnerability. The mythical imaginary landscape as an educational anti-model

Abstract

Are there imaginary spaces linked to the concept of vulnerability? Greek myths are always related to places, sometimes real and sometimes imaginary, although many of the latter are often connected to physical spaces in order to increase the credibility of the events narrated. However, there are also places that we can consider real, installed in the collective imaginary, or rather (non-)places, if we follow the famous concept used by Augé in his definition of ‘supermodernity’. One of the most important, because it has remained alive in our memory for millennia and is closely linked to the need to inculcate values and social rules that relegated the female sex as evidence of its vulnerability, is Themyscira, the capital city of the Amazons, a (non-)place whose physical existence has always been defended as an indispensable element for believing that there is some reality in Amazon myths. However, its origin is closely connected to the need to inculcate values and social norms that relegate the female sex as evidence of its vulnerability.