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Título: Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Condición: Nuevo
ISBN-10: 0691094926
EAN: 9780691094922
ISBN: 9780691094922
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Formato: Tapa blanda
Fecha de publicación: 08/12/2002
Description: 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.
Idioma: inglés
País/Región de fabricación: US
Altura del artículo: 235mm
Longitud del artículo: 152mm
Peso: 595g
Autor: Helene P. Foley
Género: Literary Criticism
Serie: Martin Classical Lectures
Tema: History, Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships
Año de publicación: 2002

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