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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书目详细资料
主要作者: Foley, Helene P., 1942-
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2001.
丛编:Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered).
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s7m1
书本目录:
  • 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.