Title Gender and the city in Euripides' political plays / Daniel Mendelsohn

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002

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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 Print version record digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Euripides -- Political and social views Euripides. Children of Heracles. Euripides. Supplices. Euripides. Children of Heracles. English. SUBJECT Euripides. fast (OCoLC)fst00037200 Euripides ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr. Heraclidae gnd Euripides ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr. Supplices gnd Euripides. Children of Heracles. nli Euripides. Supplices. nli Euripides -- Political and social views. nli Euripides. nli Euripides, approximately 480-406 v.Chr. nta Euripides. swd Children of Heracles (Euripides) fast (OCoLC)fst01357311 Supplices (Euripides) fast (OCoLC)fst01369458 Supplices. swd Heraclidae. swd Subject Political plays, Greek -- History and criticism Man-woman relationships in literature. Politics and literature -- Greece City and town life in literature. Mythology, Greek, in literature. Sex role in literature. Tragedy. tragedies. 18.43 ancient Greek literature. DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. City and town life in literature. Man-woman relationships in literature. Mythology, Greek, in literature. Political and social views. Political plays, Greek. Politics and literature. Sex role in literature. Tragedy. Geschlechterrolle Motiv Heraclidae (Euripides) Supplices (Euripides) Politieke aspecten. Greece. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Tragedies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191530401 0191530409 9780191719356 0191719358 9781281930415 1281930415

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