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Loraux The Experiences of Tiresias
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The Feminine and the Greek Man
E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6406-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "imaginary," revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. The Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationship to the feminine. In these essays, Loraux disturbs the idea of virile men and feminine women, a distinction found in official discourse and aimed at protecting the ideals of male identity from any taint of the feminine. Turning to epic and to Socrates, however, she insists on a logic of an inclusiveness between the genders, which casts a shadow over their clear, officially defined borders.
The emphasis falls on the body, often associated with feminine vulnerability and weakness, and often dissociated from the ideal of the brave, self-sacrificing male warrior. But heroes such as the Homeric Achilles, who fears yet fights bravely, and Socrates, who speaks of the soul through the language of the body, challenge these representations. The anatomy of pain, the heroics of childbirth, the sorrows of tears, the warrior's wounds, and the madness of the soul: all these experiences are shown to engage with both the masculine and the feminine in ways that do not denigrate the experiences for either gender.
Originally published in 1995.
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Introduction: The Feminine Operator 3
Pt. 1 Women, Men, and Affliction
Ch. 1 Bed and War 23
Ch. 2 Ponos: Some Difficulties Regarding the Term for "Labor" 44
Pt. 2 The Weaknesses of Strength
Ch. 3 The Spartans' "Beautiful Death" 63
Ch. 4 The Warrior's Fear and Trembling 75
Ch. 5 The Wounds of Virility 88
Ch. 6 The Strangled Body 101
Ch. 7 Herakles: The Supermale and the Feminine 116
Pt. 3 Socrates Is a Man (Philosophical Interlude)
Ch. 8 Therefore, Socrates Is Immortal 145
Ch. 9 Socrates, Plato, Herakles: A Heroic Paradigm of the Philosopher 167
Pt. 4 What Woman?
Ch. 10 And the Mothers' Case Dismissed 183
Ch. 11 The Phantom of Sexuality 194
Ch. 12 What Tiresias Saw 211
Conclusion: Feminine Nature in History 227
Notes 249
Selected Bibliography 333
Glossary of Essential Terms and Names 339
Index 345
