Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) [Hardcover]

Helen Pournara Karydas (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0822630664 | ISBN-13: 978-0822630661 | Publication Date: October 28, 1997

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.

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This book is a timely and welcome exploration of the development of what is more than simply a literary stereotype. . . . this study is a valuable contribution to the study of marginal women in Greek literature. (Judith Fletcher Bryn Mawr Classical Review )

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (October 28, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0822630664
• ISBN-13: 978-0822630661
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,706,291 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Greek Women, American Women what's the differnce, July 9, 1998

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This review is from: Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) (Hardcover)

I had Dr. KArydas as a teacher. She KNOWS what she's talking about belive me.. We had to study this book in class, because she wrote it. She loves those Greek people alot. I can't belive she's on the internet. Anyway, the book talks about the many themes that involve women in greek society. She does an excellent and very thorough job of paralleling the stories to make them applicable the the modern day woman. She graduated Harvard too, you know she's smart.