| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 257 pages) |
| Contents |
Gender, politics, interpretation -- Children of Herakles : territories of the other -- Suppliant women : regulations of the feminine |
| Summary |
This book is a study of Euripides' so-called ‘political plays’ (Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women). Still disdained as the anomalously patriotic or propagandistic works of a playwright elsewhere famous for his subversive, ironic, artistic ethos, the two works in question — notorious for their uncomfortable juxtaposition of political speeches and scenes of extreme feminine emotion — continue to be dismissed by scholars of tragedy as artistic failures unworthy of the author of Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae. This study makes use of recent insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender (in real life and on stage) and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the political plays are, in fact, intellectually subtle and structurally coherent exercises in political theorizing — works that use complex interactions between female and male characters to explore the advantages, and costs, of being a member of the polis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-248) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Euripides -- Political and social views
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Euripides. Children of Heracles.
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Euripides. Supplices.
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Euripides. Children of Heracles. English.
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Euripides. |
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Euripides ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr. Heraclidae |
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Euripides ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr. Supplices |
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Euripides. Children of Heracles. |
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Euripides. Supplices. |
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Euripides -- Political and social views. |
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Euripides. |
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Euripides, approximately 480-406 v.Chr. |
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Euripides. |
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Children of Heracles (Euripides) fast (OCoLC)fst01357311 |
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Supplices (Euripides) fast (OCoLC)fst01369458 |
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Supplices. swd |
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Heraclidae. swd |
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Political plays, Greek -- History and criticism
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Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Politics and literature -- Greece
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City and town life in literature.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Tragedy.
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tragedies.
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18.43 ancient Greek literature.
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DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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City and town life in literature.
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Man-woman relationships in literature.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Political and social views.
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Political plays, Greek.
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Politics and literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Tragedy.
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Geschlechterrolle Motiv
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Heraclidae (Euripides)
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Supplices (Euripides)
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Politieke aspecten.
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Greece.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Tragedies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191530401 |
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0191530409 |
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9780191719356 |
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0191719358 |
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9781281930415 |
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1281930415 |
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