Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman
Harvard University Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-674-90225-1 | Paper: 978-0-674-90226-8
Library of Congress Classification PA3136.L6713 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 882.0109
Cloth: 978-0-674-90225-1 | Paper: 978-0-674-90226-8
Library of Congress Classification PA3136.L6713 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 882.0109
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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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