Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama - Paperback
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Tragic Heroines in Ancient Greek Drama
The heroines of Greek tragedy presented in the plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have long captivated audiences and critics. In this volume each of the eleven chapters discusses one of the heroines: Clytemnestra, Hecuba, Medea, Iphigenia, Alcestis, Antigone Electra, Deianeira, Phaedra, Creusa and Helen. The book focuses on characterisation and the motivations of the women, as well as on...
Hanna M. Roisman is Arnold Bernhard Professor of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Classics Emerita at Colby College, USA. She is the author of numerous books, including Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy (1984); Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus (1999); Sophocles: Philoctetes (2005); Sophocles: Electra: Translation with Notes (2008/2017); and...
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