Female Acts in Greek Tragedy

Description

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 lamentat.

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Series Statement

• Martin Classical Lectures

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Other Editions

• Female Acts in Greek TragedyElectronic resourcePrinceton University Press2002-01-01
• Female Acts in Greek TragedyPrinceton University Press2001-01-01
• Female Acts in Greek TragedyPrinceton University Press2003-01-01
• Female Acts in Greek TragedyPrinceton University Press2009-01-01