Add to ORKG© 2021 John HenryIn Greek tragedy, there were various methods available for a tragic woman to destroy her enemies: poison, a sword or dagger used in stealth, among other indirect methods. In this thesis, Femina Necans, these tropes will be investigated in a series of case-studies on tragedies from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Several matters are raised: did Clytemnestra use a sword or an axe against Cassandra in the Oresteia? How could ‘heroic’ characters such as Euripides’ Medea be portrayed using poison, a decidedly unheroic method? Finally, could the origins of tragedy and its relation to Dionysus explain Greek tragedy’s curious preoccupation with violent women
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
Dangerous Women in Attic Tragedy: A State of Affairs (2022) considers the central role of the danger...
This project investigates the impact that the hegemonic masculine perspective has on our modern memo...
This project investigates the impact that the hegemonic masculine perspective has on our modern memo...
Modern scholars have often noted the harsh depictions of women in Greek literature and account for t...
This article examines how the paradoxical aspects of Medea's character point to one of the fundament...
Medea’s powerful ability to inspire and confuse is at the core of this study. The contradiction conc...
Medea’s powerful ability to inspire and confuse is at the core of this study. The contradiction conc...
Aeschylus is represented in the Frogs of Aristophanes, as the type of Archaic maleness. This idea is...
In the last thirty years, Greek tragedy has been increasingly recognized as a ground of moral reflec...
D.Litt. et Phil.In the Oresteia of Aeschylus, the female characters meet with one of five different ...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
Dangerous Women in Attic Tragedy: A State of Affairs (2022) considers the central role of the danger...
This project investigates the impact that the hegemonic masculine perspective has on our modern memo...
This project investigates the impact that the hegemonic masculine perspective has on our modern memo...
Modern scholars have often noted the harsh depictions of women in Greek literature and account for t...
This article examines how the paradoxical aspects of Medea's character point to one of the fundament...
Medea’s powerful ability to inspire and confuse is at the core of this study. The contradiction conc...
Medea’s powerful ability to inspire and confuse is at the core of this study. The contradiction conc...
Aeschylus is represented in the Frogs of Aristophanes, as the type of Archaic maleness. This idea is...
In the last thirty years, Greek tragedy has been increasingly recognized as a ground of moral reflec...
D.Litt. et Phil.In the Oresteia of Aeschylus, the female characters meet with one of five different ...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...
El presente trabajo propone el estudio de , la violencia en el protagonismo femenino de d...