Add to ORKGThe women portrayed in Greek drama were often strong, courageous, and integral to the storyline. In contrast to their real-life counterparts (who may have not even been allowed to see the plays), these women stood out as individuals in their respective stories. They are bold, dynamic, intelligent and respected. They are meant to be seen and heard. Women in drama emerge as heroines of their own stories and serve to educate the audience on some aspect of women in Greece. On other hand, the women of Homeric epics tended to be subdued and traditional; they are background characters, merely present to help or hinder their heroes. The women in these poems are meant to serve a teaching purpose as well; they taught women how they should and should ...
Aeschylus is represented in the Frogs of Aristophanes, as the type of Archaic maleness. This idea is...
This thesis uses an intersectional approach to understand Helen’s and Clytemnestra’s depictions in f...
This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sac...
To the modern reader, ancient Greece may seem like a highly male dominated culture. The writings th...
The portrayal of women in Ancient Greek drama seems at times opposed to the societal gender roles wi...
Typescript.Within the pale of that civilization which has grown up under the combined influence of t...
Ancient Greece from 2000 to 146 BCE maintained a gendered hierarchy, more specifically a patriarchy ...
Why are two such controversial characters as Medea and Deianeira the protagonists in two plays in an...
The lives of ancient women are difficult to understand. Documentation is fragmented and often unreli...
One consequence of the recent infusion of newer critical approaches into the study of classical lite...
Since the mid-1970s, classical scholars have taken a new interest in the study of women in antiquity...
In ancient Greece, the tragedy plays an important role in the lives of Greeks. There were tragic con...
This is the published version, also available here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/268229
This project investigates the impact that the hegemonic masculine perspective has on our modern memo...
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of th...
Aeschylus is represented in the Frogs of Aristophanes, as the type of Archaic maleness. This idea is...
This thesis uses an intersectional approach to understand Helen’s and Clytemnestra’s depictions in f...
This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sac...
To the modern reader, ancient Greece may seem like a highly male dominated culture. The writings th...
The portrayal of women in Ancient Greek drama seems at times opposed to the societal gender roles wi...
Typescript.Within the pale of that civilization which has grown up under the combined influence of t...
Ancient Greece from 2000 to 146 BCE maintained a gendered hierarchy, more specifically a patriarchy ...
Why are two such controversial characters as Medea and Deianeira the protagonists in two plays in an...
The lives of ancient women are difficult to understand. Documentation is fragmented and often unreli...
One consequence of the recent infusion of newer critical approaches into the study of classical lite...
Since the mid-1970s, classical scholars have taken a new interest in the study of women in antiquity...
In ancient Greece, the tragedy plays an important role in the lives of Greeks. There were tragic con...
This is the published version, also available here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/268229
This project investigates the impact that the hegemonic masculine perspective has on our modern memo...
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of th...
Aeschylus is represented in the Frogs of Aristophanes, as the type of Archaic maleness. This idea is...
This thesis uses an intersectional approach to understand Helen’s and Clytemnestra’s depictions in f...
This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sac...