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

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, demonstrating how the poetics of female paideia in those performances are appropriated and reshaped in the poetics of epic and tragedy.

About the author

Helen Pournara Karydas is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and teaches classics at the Boston Latin School.

Summary

A study of the nurse in Greek literature from Homer to Euripides. Depicted as a central figure of authority, the author focuses on the verbal manifestations of the nurse's authority - advice, approval, diasapproval, directions and orders.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Pournara Karydas, Karydas Helen Pournara
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.1997
• EAN: 9780822630661
• ISBN: 978-0-8226-3066-1
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval