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Foley offers new perspectives and complete presentations of several tragedy women. -- Karelisa V. Hartigan , Religious Studies Review
Foley offers new perspectives and complete presentations of several tragedy women. . . . This book may not be read in an afternoon. But every classics scholar should read it once and most will reread sections to consider again Foley's selected women. -- Review
Sensibility of thought and methodology characterize this work that will be valued by scholars, teachers, and students of Greek tragedy. -- John E. Thorburn, The Classical Outlook
This impressive work is noteworthy for its comprehensive scope and its lucid style. [A] major study... by an important scholar. -- Mary-Kay Gamel, Theatre Journal
Foley offers new perspectives and complete presentations of several tragedy women. . . . This book may not be read in an afternoon. But every classics scholar should read it once and most will reread sections to consider again Foley's selected women. -- Review
Sensibility of thought and methodology characterize this work that will be valued by scholars, teachers, and students of Greek tragedy. -- John E. Thorburn, The Classical Outlook
This impressive work is noteworthy for its comprehensive scope and its lucid style. [A] major study... by an important scholar. -- Mary-Kay Gamel, Theatre Journal
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This impressive work is noteworthy for its comprehensive scope and its lucid style. [A] major study . . . by an important scholar. (Mary-Kay Gamel Theatre Journal )
Sensibility of thought and methodology characterize this work that will be valued by scholars, teachers, and students of Greek tragedy. (John E. Thorburn The Classical Outlook )
Foley offers new perspectives and complete presentations of several tragedy women. (Karelisa V. Hartigan Religious Studies Review )
Sensibility of thought and methodology characterize this work that will be valued by scholars, teachers, and students of Greek tragedy. (John E. Thorburn The Classical Outlook )
Foley offers new perspectives and complete presentations of several tragedy women. (Karelisa V. Hartigan Religious Studies Review )
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READERS and viewers of Greek tragedy sometimes find their attention wandering during the often lengthy scenes of ritual lamentation in Greek tragedy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symbolic remarriage, traditional nomoi, tragic virgins, choral lamentation, vendetta justice, tragic wives, funerary legislation, funerary lamentation, female lamentation, tragic women, daimonic force, diverging devolution, tragic lamentation, public lamentation, tapestry scene, tragic mothers, bilateral inheritance, revenge plan, sacrificial virgins, marital system, lamenting women, tragic stage, extant tragedy, ethical mode, masculine ethics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Comedy, Peloponnesian War, Richard Seaford, Nicomachean Ethics, History of Animals, Athenaion Politeia, Christian Wolff, Women of Trachis, Homeric Hymn, Bernard Williams, Cynthia Patterson, Description of Greece, Oedipus Rex, Prometheus Bound, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Bruno Snell, Melanippe Desmotis, Parts of Animals New!
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READERS and viewers of Greek tragedy sometimes find their attention wandering during the often lengthy scenes of ritual lamentation in Greek tragedy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
symbolic remarriage, traditional nomoi, tragic virgins, choral lamentation, vendetta justice, tragic wives, funerary legislation, funerary lamentation, female lamentation, tragic women, daimonic force, diverging devolution, tragic lamentation, public lamentation, tapestry scene, tragic mothers, bilateral inheritance, revenge plan, sacrificial virgins, marital system, lamenting women, tragic stage, extant tragedy, ethical mode, masculine ethics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Comedy, Peloponnesian War, Richard Seaford, Nicomachean Ethics, History of Animals, Athenaion Politeia, Christian Wolff, Women of Trachis, Homeric Hymn, Bernard Williams, Cynthia Patterson, Description of Greece, Oedipus Rex, Prometheus Bound, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Bruno Snell, Melanippe Desmotis, Parts of Animals New!
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- Reflections of Women in Antiquity by Helene P. Foley on 4 pages
- Euripides, Women and Sexuality by Anton Powell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond by M. S. Silk in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- History of Animals by Aristotle on page 111, page 114, and Back Matter
- Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus on page 28, page 86, and page 122
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- Euripides: Iphigenia at Aulis (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy S.) by Tom Harrison (Editor) Pantelis Michelakis on page 135, page 146, and Back Matter
- Dionysus since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium by Edith Hall in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia by Gary S. Meltzer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience by Susan Guettel Cole in Back Matter
- The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato by John Heath in Back Matter
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