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Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (Martin Classical Lectures)
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy - Martin Classical Lectures
Author: Helene P. Foley
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 g...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691050300
ISBN-10: 0691050309
Publication Date: 4/1/2001
Pages: 424
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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