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Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy

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Lyndsay Coo, P. J. Finglass, Fiona McHardy, Alan H. Sommerstein, Helene P. Foley, Anna Uhlig, Niall W. Slater, Robert Cowan, Caleb Simone, Luigi Battezzato, James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Matthew Wright
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  • Date Published: July 2020
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108495141

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  • How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the thirty-two tragedies that survive complete - neglecting tragic fragments, especially those recently discovered and often very substantial fragmentary papyri from plays that had been thought lost. Drawing on the latest research on both gender in tragedy and on tragic fragments, the essays in this volume examine this question from a fresh perspective, shedding light on important mythological characters such as Pasiphae, Hypsipyle, and Europa, on themes such as violence, sisterhood, vengeance, and sex, and on the methodology of a discipline which needs to take fragmentary evidence to heart in order to gain a fuller understanding of ancient tragedy. All Greek is translated to ensure wide accessibility.

    • Provides the first large-scale investigation of female characters in Greek tragedy from the perspective of the fragmentary plays
    • Offers a new methodological model for how to bring fragmentary tragedy into the mainstream of literary scholarship
    • Makes texts that are often thought to be the preserve of philological specialists accessible to a wide audience of students and scholars
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    • Date Published: July 2020
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108495141
    • length: 300 pages
    • dimensions: 250 x 175 x 20 mm
    • weight: 0.65kg
    • contains: 2 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    1. Introduction Lyndsay Coo and P. J. Finglass
    Part I. Themes:
    2. Female violence towards women and girls in Greek tragedy Fiona McHardy
    3. Greek tragedy and the theatre of sisterhood Lyndsay Coo
    4. Women in love in the fragmentary plays of Sophocles Alan H. Sommerstein
    5. Heterosexual bonding in the fragments of Euripides Helene P. Foley
    6. Suffering in silence: victims of rape on the tragic stage P. J. Finglass
    Part II. Plays:
    7. Dancing on the plain of the sea: gender and theatrical space in Aeschylus' Achilles trilogy Anna Uhlig
    8. Europe revisited: an experiment in characterisation Niall W. Slater
    9. When mothers turn bad: the perversion of the maternal ideal in Sophocles' Eurypylus Robert Cowan
    10. The music one desires: Hypsipyle and Aristophanes' 'muse of Euripides' Caleb Simone
    11. Fragmented self and fragmented responsibility: Pasiphae in Euripides' Cretans Luigi Battezzato
    12. Female agency in Euripides' Hypsipyle James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard
    13. Making Medea Medea Matthew Wright
    Bibliography
    Index of subjects
    Index of Greek
    Index of passages discussed.

  • Editors

    P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol
    P. J. Finglass is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek and Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. He has published Sophocles (2019) in the series Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics, as well as editions of Sophocles' Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011), and Electra (2007), of Stesichorus (2014), and of Pindar's Pythian Eleven (2007) in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; edited The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (with Adrian Kelly, 2019) and Stesichorus in Context (Cambridge, 2015); and edits the journal Classical Quarterly.

    Lyndsay Coo, University of Bristol
    Lyndsay Coo is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on lost and fragmentary ancient Greek tragedy and satyr play. She is writing a commentary on Sophocles' fragmentary Trojan plays, and is co-editor (with Anna Uhlig) of Aeschylus at Play: Studies in Aeschylean Satyr Drama (2019).

    Contributors

    Lyndsay Coo, P. J. Finglass, Fiona McHardy, Alan H. Sommerstein, Helene P. Foley, Anna Uhlig, Niall W. Slater, Robert Cowan, Caleb Simone, Luigi Battezzato, James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Matthew Wright

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