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Author Zeitlin, Froma I., author.

Title The retrospective muse : pathways through ancient Greek literature and culture / Froma I. Zeitlin
Published Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2023
©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvi, 387 pages) : illustrations
Series Myth and poetics II
Myth and poetics. II.
Contents Eros Tyrannos -- Configurations of rape in Greek myth -- Religion and erotics in the ancient novel -- Gendered ambiguities, hybrid formations, and the imaginary of the body in Achilles Tatius -- Apollo and Dionysos: starting from birth -- Cultic models of the female: rites of Dionysus and Demeter -- Sacrifices holy and unholy in Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris -- Staging Dionysus between Thebes and Athens -- Patterns of gender in Aeschylean drama: Seven Against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy in Argos -- Troy and tragedy: the conscience of Hellas -- Aristophanes: the performance of Utopia in the Ecclesiazousae -- Radical theater: Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69
Summary "A collection of the author's previously published essays, inquiries into gender, cult, the city, erotics, and the role of the visual"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indices
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2023)
Subject Greek literature -- History and criticism
Greek drama -- History and criticism
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society -- Greece
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Gender identity in literature
Greek drama
Greek literature
Literature and society
Greece
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023006812
ISBN 9781501772986
1501772988
150177297X
9781501772979
Other Titles Pathways through ancient Greek literature and culture