ENGLISH

Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman

By Nicole Loraux

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0674902262, 9780674902268
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3102169 bytes)
Edition
Revised ed.
Pages
114\58
Topic
Science (General)
Time added
2016-05-04 08:39:30
Ancient & Classical;Dramas & Plays;Literature & Fi

Description

In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet and exemplary existence as wife and mother. Her glory was to have no glory. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their own fate. It is a genre that delights in blurring the formal frontier between masculine and feminine. Through the subtlety of her reading of these powerful and ambiguous texts, Nicole Loraux elicits an array of insights into Greek attitudes toward death, sexuality, and gender.

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