Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

by Daniel Mendelsohn

Book Overview

The first full-length study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women to appear in fifty years, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays uses fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity to demonstrate at last the formal elegance and intellectual complexity of two works that are still dismissed as artistic failures within the poet's oeuvre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199278040
• ISBN13: 9780199278046
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.2"