Female acts in Greek tragedy
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Female acts in Greek tragedy
（Martin classical lectures）
Princeton University Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-368) and indexes
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ISBN 9780691050300
内容説明
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 with her literary analysis, allows for a rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition.
Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private
目次
- Acknowledgments ix Introductory Note and Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation 19 II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage 57 III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy 107 III.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers
- Penelope as Paradigm 109 III.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles' Electra 145 III.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent 172 III4. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras 201 III.5. Tragic Wives: Medea's Divided Self 243 III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides 272 IV Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen 301 Conclusion 333 Bibliography 339 General Index 369 Index Locurum 387
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: pbk ISBN 9780691094922
内容説明
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 with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition.
Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural cliches about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.
目次
- Acknowledgments ix Introductory Note and Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation 19 II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage 57 III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy 107 III.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers
- Penelope as Paradigm 109 III.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles' Electra 145 III.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent 172 III4. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras 201 III.5. Tragic Wives: Medea's Divided Self 243 III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides 272 IV Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen 301 Conclusion 333 Bibliography 339 General Index 369 Index Locurum 387
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