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Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Helene P. Foley
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Description for Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Paperback. Shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. This work investigates three problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
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 lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together ... Read more
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 lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Martin Classical Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
671g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691094922
SKU
V9780691094922
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About Helene P. Foley
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).
Reviews for Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
"Innovative and accessible... [Foley] combines wide coverage with nuance and detail... Hers is the best argument you will find to the effect that Greek tragedy gives heroines a (limited) space from which to assert their private and public virtues alongside male vices and transgressions. This builds to a distinctive and carefully historicized vision of tragedy's role in Athens, not to ... Read more