Female acts in Greek tragedy

• Main Author: Foley, Helene P. 1942- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press c2001
• Series: Martin classical lectures
• Subjects: Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Ιστορία και κριτική; Γυναίκες και λογοτεχνία > Ελλάδα; Γυναίκες στη λογοτεχνία

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Introduction
• L The Politics of Tragic Lamentation
• II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage
• II1. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy
• 111.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers; Penelope as Paradigm
• 111.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation
• in Sophocles' Electra
• 111.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent
• 111.4. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras
• 111.5. Tragic Wives: Medea's Divided Self
• III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides
• IV. Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Acesds and Helen
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• General Index
• Index Locurum