Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Series: Martin Classical Lectures; Martin Classical Lectures
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9781400824731
Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy); Women and literature; Women in literature
Description: 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 contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentat.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introductory Note and Abbreviations; Introduction; I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation; II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage; III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy; IV. Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen; Conclusion; Bibliography; General Index; Index Locorum.