Female Acts in Greek Tragedy.

Female Acts in Greek Tragedy.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Foley, Helene P.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (423 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Martin Classical Lectures Martin Classical Lectures.
Subject:	Greek drama (Tragedy) Women and literature. Women in literature. Greece. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10369779

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ISBN:	9781400824731 86.19 (3U)
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record.
Other form:	Print version: Foley, Helene P. Female Acts in Greek Tragedy Princeton : Princeton University Press,c2009 9780691094922

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introductory Note and Abbreviations
Introduction
I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation
II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage
III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy
III.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers; Penelope as Paradigm
III.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles' Electra
III.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent
III4.. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras
III.5. Tragic Wives: Medea's Divided Self
III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides
IV. Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen
Conclusion
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locurum