"In the case of Diana, Princess of Wales this was an obvious culmination. As her brother pointed out at her funeral, Diana — or Artemis, if we are going to stick to the Greeks — was the goddess of hunting, herself hunted to death.
Or you could say that, pursued by the Furies for much of her public life, those foul harpies finally got their girl. She could be Prometheus, stealing fire (or fame) from the gods (or the royal firm), and giving it to mortals for their own use; or Cassandra, predicting her own fate in a series of tapes and telephone calls; a female Narcissus, gazing doomed and entranced upon her own reflection in magazines."
India Knight makes some observations about the use of mythic imagery in discussing Princess Diana, insults Catholics, uses the strange construct half-Muslim, and gets the readers quite irate.
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Comparing Princess Diana to the Goddess Diana? My, that is a bit of a stretch---since my name is Cynthia, if I piss off a sour-faced mother-in-law (oh wait...that job IS done!) and die in a car wreck, shall I likewise be compared to the Huntress?
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