Playing the other : gender and society in classical greek literature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London:
The University of Chicago Press,
c1996
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| Series: | Women in culture and society (University of Chicago press)
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Gender and paradigm : the privileged models: Figuring fidelity in Homer's Odyssey
- Signifying difference : the case of Hesiod's Pandora
- The dynamics of misogyny : myth and mythmaking in Aeschylus's Oresteia
- pt. 2. Gender and the body : the woman's story
- The politics of Eros in the Danaid trilogy of Aeschylus
- The body's revenge : Dionysos and tragic action in Euripides' Hekabe
- pt. 3. Gender and selfhood : the boy's story: The power of Aphrodite : Eros and the boundaries of the self in Euripides' Hippolytos
- Mysteries of identity and designs of the self in Euripides' Ion
- pt. 4. Gender and mimesis : theater and identity: Playing the other : theater, theatricality, and the feminine in Greek drama
- Travesties of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae.