The Noose of Words
Subtitle: Readings of Desire, Violence and Language in Euripides' Hippolytos
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780521033237
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; General; Drama-Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Euripides.--Hippolytus; Euripides.--Hippolytus Euripides.--Hippolytus; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
First sentence: At Hippolytos 293-6 the Nurse says to Phaidra, as part of her attempt to persuade her mistress to speak, 'and if you are sick with some one of the unspeakable [aporrheton] evils, these women [are here] to help with the disease; but if your condition [sumphora, also meaning misfortune, calamity] can be carried out towards the men [lit. if it is ekphoros], speak, so that it may be revealed to doctors'.