Foley Female Acts in Greek Tragedy

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E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Martin Classical Lectures

Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, coauthor of Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, and editor of Reflections of Women in Antiquity and of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foley, Helene P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introductory Note and Abbreviations xi

Introduction 3

I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation 19

II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage 57

III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy 107

III.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers; Penelope as Paradigm 109

III.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles' Electra 145

III.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent 172

III4. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras 201

III.5. Tragic Wives: Medea's Divided Self 243

III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides 272

IV Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen 301

Conclusion 333

Bibliography 339

General Index 369

Index Locurum 387

Über Autor(innen)

Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, coauthor of Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, and editor of Reflections of Women in Antiquity and of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Princeton).