Female acts in Greek tragedy /
Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradicti...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2001.
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| Serie: | Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered).
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s7m1 |
| Riassunto: | Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentat. |
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| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 410 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-368) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400814251 9781400814251 9781400824731 1400824737 0691094926 9780691094922 9786612935268 661293526X 9786612087479 6612087471 1282087479 9781282087477 1282935267 9781282935266 0691050309 |