A01=Nicole Loraux
Author_Nicole Loraux
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Product details
- ISBN 9780674902268
- Weight: 159g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1991
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In ordinary life an Athenian woman was allowed no accomplishments beyond leading a quiet and exemplary existence as wife and mother. Her glory was to have no glory. In Greek tragedy, however, women die violently and, through violence, master their own fate. It is a genre that delights in blurring the formal frontier between masculine and feminine. Through the subtlety of her reading of these powerful and ambiguous texts, Nicole Loraux elicits an array of insights into Greek attitudes toward death, sexuality, and gender.
Nicole Loraux was Professor of History and Anthropology of the Greek Polis at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. She was the author of The Divided City, The Children of Athena, The Experiences of Tiresias, and Mothers in Mourning, among other titles.
