Dangerous Women in Attic Tragedy: A State of Affairs
Year: 2022

&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dangerous Women in Attic Tragedy: A State of Affairs (2022) considers the central role of the dangerous woman in fifth-century (BCE) Attic tragedy. This study examines intertextuality and allusion to compare the wronged-wife across three tragedies by three different Athenian playwrights. By analysing the depiction of these women as a result of active engagement with previous playwrights we are able to identify the emergence of a ‘dangerous-woman’ topos on the tragic stage. Not