Female Acts in Greek Tragedy

by Helene P. Foley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691094926
• ISBN13: 9780691094922
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"