Author: Foley, Helene P.
Title: Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xi,410 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Politics of Tragic Lamentation; The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage; Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy: Virgins, Wives & Mothers:Penelope as Paradigm; Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles' Electra; Antigone as Moral Agent;Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras; Medea's Divided Self; Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides; Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Ancestis & Helen; Conclusion.

Keywords: Classical Philology, Tragic Drama, Greek Tragedy, Ancient Greece, Literary History, Criticism, Women, ,