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Adultery
Aegisthus
Aeschylus
Affair
Alcestis
Andromache
Aristotle
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Chrysothemis
Classical Athens
Clytemnestra
Concubinage
Consideration
Cowardice
Criticism
Deliberation
Demosthenes
Dionysus
Dowry
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Ethical decision
Euripides
Evadne
Evocation
Funeral oration (ancient Greece)
Gender role
Greek mythology
Greek tragedy
Heracleidae
Herodotus
Homer
Household
Hubris
I Wish (manhwa)
Ideology
Iphigenia
Irony
Jocasta
Literature
Masculinity
Melanippe
Menelaus
Monologue
Morality
Mourning
Odysseus
Oeconomicus
Oedipus at Colonus
Oreste
Persuasion (novel)
Perversion
Pity
Poetry
Polymestor
Protagonist
Public morality
Remarriage
Rhetoric
Slavery
Sophocles
Spouse
Suffering
Supplication
Tecmessa
The Bacchae
The Other Hand
Theseus
Thucydides
Tragedy
Tragic hero
Trojan War
Women of Trachis
Product details
- ISBN 9780691094922
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of "Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides", coauthor of "Women in the Classical World: Image and Text", and editor of "Reflections of Women in Antiquity" and of "The Homeric Hymn to Demeter" (Princeton).
