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| ISBN: | 1400814251
9781400814251
9781400824731
1400824737
0691094926
9780691094922
0691094926
9780691094922
1282087479
9781282087477
1282935267
9781282935266
9786612935268
661293526X
9786612087479
6612087471
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-368) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 lamentat.
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| Other form: | Print version: Foley, Helene P., 1942- Female acts in Greek tragedy. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001 0691050309
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| Standard no.: | 9780691094922
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