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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| स्वरूप: | Licensed eBooks |
| भाषा: | अंग्रेज़ी |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2001.
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| श्रृंखला: | Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered).
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s7m1 |
विषय - सूची:
- The politics of tragic lamentation
- The contradictions of tragic marriage
- Women as moral agents in Greek tragedy
- Virgins, wives, and mothers; Penelope as paradigm
- Sacrificial virgins: Antigone as moral agent
- Tragic wives: Clytemnestras
- Tragic wives: Medea's divided self
- Tragic mothers: maternal persuasion in Euripides
- Anodos dramas: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen.