When Hecuba begs Hector to avoid a confrontation with Achilles, she does not only employ words but also body language : from the walls of Troy, the mother uncovers the breast which had fed him as a baby. The bare breast of Hecuba points to the problem of that trophe that sons owe to women, especially to mothers, whose role as protectors can nevertheless pose a threat to the plans and aims of men. This paper seeks to place this gesture of the supplicating mother in that Ancient Greek horizon of meaning in which gender, age and status generate obligations and behavioral expectations. Finally, it suggests a connection with other problems of interpretation in order to cast some new light on the role of women in the Iliad.Quand Hécube supplie He...
The supplicants or danaides (daan of Dánao) arrive at Argos defending their sexuality and freedom ag...
In ancient Greece, the tragedy plays an important role in the lives of Greeks. There were tragic con...
En el presente estudio nos proponemos analizar cómo se relaciona el ámbito de la guerra, elemento mu...
Verses 616-668 of Hippolytus by Euripides present a diatribe of this character against women in gene...
International audienceIn Greek cities, it is commonly held, there were two very different ways of li...
En el marco del relato de la caída de Troya, la voz narrativa se traslada al centro del palacio de P...
The starting point of this contribution is the mythical episode of the goddess Hera suckling the her...
En el marco del relato de la caída de Troya, la voz narrativa se traslada al centro del palacio de P...
The fabulous tale of the Amazon enters the Greek cultural history during the first half of the sixth...
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of th...
This paper aims at analyzing the spaces in conflict and the scopes for action that “spoilwomen” show...
In the context of the account of the fall of Troy, the narrative voice turns to Priam’s palace (Aen....
International audienceBy an interesting coincidence, in both Chaireas and Callirhoe and the Aithiop...
The necessary anomaly. Dangerous women and gynophobia in AthensIn the passage from the archaic perio...
Hecuba has famously been regarded as the secondary character of the Fall of Troy and not as the mate...
The supplicants or danaides (daan of Dánao) arrive at Argos defending their sexuality and freedom ag...
In ancient Greece, the tragedy plays an important role in the lives of Greeks. There were tragic con...
En el presente estudio nos proponemos analizar cómo se relaciona el ámbito de la guerra, elemento mu...
Verses 616-668 of Hippolytus by Euripides present a diatribe of this character against women in gene...
International audienceIn Greek cities, it is commonly held, there were two very different ways of li...
En el marco del relato de la caída de Troya, la voz narrativa se traslada al centro del palacio de P...
The starting point of this contribution is the mythical episode of the goddess Hera suckling the her...
En el marco del relato de la caída de Troya, la voz narrativa se traslada al centro del palacio de P...
The fabulous tale of the Amazon enters the Greek cultural history during the first half of the sixth...
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of th...
This paper aims at analyzing the spaces in conflict and the scopes for action that “spoilwomen” show...
In the context of the account of the fall of Troy, the narrative voice turns to Priam’s palace (Aen....
International audienceBy an interesting coincidence, in both Chaireas and Callirhoe and the Aithiop...
The necessary anomaly. Dangerous women and gynophobia in AthensIn the passage from the archaic perio...
Hecuba has famously been regarded as the secondary character of the Fall of Troy and not as the mate...
The supplicants or danaides (daan of Dánao) arrive at Argos defending their sexuality and freedom ag...
In ancient Greece, the tragedy plays an important role in the lives of Greeks. There were tragic con...
En el presente estudio nos proponemos analizar cómo se relaciona el ámbito de la guerra, elemento mu...