Playing the Other - Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature

Foreword Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Abbreviations Introduction Pt. 1: Gender and Paradigm: The Privileged Models 1: Figuring Fidelity in Homer's Odyssey 2: Signifying Difference: The Case of Hesiod's Pandora 3: The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in Aeschylus's Oresteia Pt. 2: Gender and the Body: The Woman's Story 4: The Politics of Eros in the Danaid Trilogy of Aeschylus 5: The Body's Revenge: Dionysos and Tragic Action in Euripides' Hekabe Pt. 3: Gender and Selfhood: The Boy's Story 6: The Power of Aphrodite: Eros and the Boundaries of the Self in Euripides' Hippolytos 7: Mysteries of Identity and Designs of the Self in Euripides' Ion Pt. 4: Gender and Mimesis: Theater and Identity 8: Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama 9: Travesties of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae Bibliography Index of Key Passages General Index

Summary

This study explores the influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from epic and didactic poetry to the theatrical productions of tragedy and comedy in 5th-century Athens. The workings of gender as a factor in Greek social, religious and cultural practices are explored.

Product details

• Authors: Froma I Zeitlin, Froma I. Zeitlin, Zeitlin Froma I.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1995
• EAN: 9780226979229
• ISBN: 978-0-226-97922-9
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 737 g
• Series: Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Gender studies, gender groups, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity