A01=Helen Pournara Karydas
Author_Helen Pournara Karydas
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Product details
- ISBN 9780822630661
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 1997
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Greek literature from Homer to Euripides, the Nurse is a central figure of authority, but until now no one has attempted a systematic, comprehensive study of her. Examining Nurse figures in ancient Greek epic and drama, Helen Pournara Karydas focuses on the the verbal manifestations of the Nurse's authority-advice, approval, disapproval, directions and orders. She reveals its roots in the models of female hierarchy in early choral lyric performances, demonstrating how the poetics of female paideia in those performances are appropriated and reshaped in the poetics of epic and tragedy.
Helen Pournara Karydas is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and teaches classics at the Boston Latin School.
