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- Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy
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- 1998
- Published by: University of Texas Press
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An illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and Euripides’ Alcestis.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity
- pp. xiii-xxxvii
- Part One. Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles’ Trachiniae
- Two. The Foreclosed Female Subject
- pp. 56-76
- Part Two. The Violence of kharis in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon
- Five. Agalma ploutou: Accounting for Helen
- pp. 122-138
- Part Three. Mourning and Matricide in Euripides’ Alcestis
- Conclusion. Too Intimate Commerce
- pp. 216-221
- Bibliography
- pp. 302-323
- General Index
- pp. 324-333
Additional Information
ISBN
9780292799974
Related ISBN(s)
9780292791138
MARC Record
OCLC
967550858
Pages
332
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-05
Language
English
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No
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