Female acts in Greek tragedy /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foley, Helene P., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Colección:Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered).
Temas:
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Greece.
Women in literature.
Tragédie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Grèce.
Femmes dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Women and literature.
Greece.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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