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| AUTHOR: | Nicole Loraux |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Harvard University Press |
| ISBN: | 0674902254 |
| TYPE: | Ancient, Classical & Medieval, General, Greece, Greek Literature, Greek drama (Tragedy), History and criticism, History: American, Human sacrifice in literature, Plays / Drama, Women In Literature, Women and literature |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Like a political system It seems to be fairly easy for certain groups of men to feel that they have a natural monopoly on killing people. It usually isn't obvious to such groups how much the rest of the world might disagree. This short work on ancient Greek drama by a French educator attempts to examine a few other angles, and it manages to produce a broader perspective on such things by examining elements of ancient art which resonate about like "Oedipus has forced open the door that Jocasta had carefully closed on herself, and now everyone can see the woman hanging, `caught in the noose that swings'." (p. 17). The details of the book are about the poetic aspects of characters like Evadne in "Suppliant Women" by Euripides, who ends it all with the cry, "Here I am on this rock, like a bird, above the pyre of Capaneus, I rise lightly, upward on a deadly swing." (p. 18). The end of this book is actually a cast of characters, listed alphabetically, so the final place of honor goes to Theseus, on whom it reports, "King of Athens, husband of Phaedra, and father of Hippolytus, whom he wrongly cursed. See Euripides, `Hippolytus'." (p. 95).