Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics

by Gregory Nagy and Helen Pournara Karydas

In Greek literature from Homer to Euripides, the Nurse is a central figure of authority, but until now no one has attempted a systematic, comprehensive study of her. Examining Nurse figures in ancient Greek epic and drama, Helen Pournara Karydas focuses on the the verbal manifestations of the Nurse's authority-advice, approval, disapproval, directions and orders. She reveals its roots in the models of female hierarchy in early choral lyric performances,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822630672
• ISBN13: 9780822630678
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"