Spoken Like a Woman : Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama /

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In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-lengt...

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Autor principal: McClure, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
Adonia.
Areopagus.
Assembly.
Bacchylides.
Baubo.
Boulē.
Cimon.
Cleisthenes.
Cleomedes.
Demeter.
Demosthenes.
Diodorus Siculus.
Hesiod.
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.
Lysias.
Nicias.
Nossis.
Pharmaka.
Rayor, D.
Rothwell, K.
Sappho.
Sophocles.
Thelgein.
Theognis.
Thesmophoria.
Verbal genres: defined.
actors.
aischrologia.
arrhēta.
courtesans.
curse tablets.
demagogues.
dokimasia.
doxa.
epitaphios.
female choruses.
gossip.
gynaecocracy.
invective against women.
isonomia.
isēgoria.
kokuō.
kosmēsis.
kurios.
lamentation.
law courts.
obscenity.
ololugē.
parrhēsia.
partheneion.
persuasion.
prostitution.
rhetoric.
wedding ritual.
women: adultery of.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER ONE. The City of Words: Speech in the Athenian Polis
  • CHAPTER TWO. Gender and Verbal Genres in Ancient Greece
  • CHAPTER THREE. Logos Gunaikos: Speech and Gender in Aeschylus' Oresteia
  • CHAPTER FOUR. At the House Door: Phaedra and the Politics of Reputation
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Women's Wordy Strife: Gossip and Invective in Euripides' Andromache
  • CHAPTER SIX. Obscenity, Gender, and Social Status in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and Ecclesiazusae
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Conclusion
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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