Playing the other

gender and society in classical Greek literature

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Author

Froma I. Zeitlin

Publication

1996 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

118,500 words, Guess

Page Count

474 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL1271650M
ISBN-100226979210
OCLC Control Number32396001
Library of Congress Control Number95002906
Goodreads1211483

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LibraryThing411504

Classifications

DDC880.9/352042
LCCPA3016.W65 Z44 1996

Description

Relations between the sexes were among the most pervasive concerns of ancient Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of sex roles in domestic and political spheres to the organization of the cosmos as a pantheon of gods and goddesses. In Playing the Other Froma I. Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens. With incisive analysis and theoretical sophistication, she demonstrates the workings of gender in Greek social, religious, and cultural practices and in ideas about nature and culture, public and private, citizen and outsider, self and other, mortal and immortal.