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Suffering in silence:victims of rape on the tragic stage
Full text linkThis chapter focuses on women who have themselves been the object of violence and who are linked by the theme of silence. The episode in Trachiniae in which Deianira is struck by the appearance of Iole has long been compared to the scene between Clytemnestra and Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon: in both cases, a silent woman, a target of male sexual lust, arrives at the home of her new master and is met by his wife. The chapter highlights the relevance of a third play for this pattern: Sophocles’ Tereus, in which the mutilated Philomela, her tongue cut out, will have arrived at the palace of Tereus and his wife, her sister Procne. The chapter draws out the structural and thematic parallels between these three tragedies, showing how each offers a related but distinct configuration of the connection between female voice and voicelessness, suffering, and power
Introduction
Full text linkThis chapter introduces the book by examining the place of fragments within tragic scholarship as well as scholarly trends in the tragic representation of women, and by surveying the contents of the different chapters and suggesting pathways for future work
Introduction
Full text linkThis introduction to The Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an overview of the book as a whole by examining key themes and giving an account of the different sections of which the volume is composed
Sophocles' learning curve: In: Hesperos: studies in ancient Greek poetry presented to M. L. West on his seventieth birthday
No full textWe are not permitted to provide full-text of this book chapter at this time. Citation: Pelling, C. B. R. (2007). Sophocles' learning curve. In: Finglass, P. J., Collard, C. & Richardson, N. J. (eds.), Hesperos: studies in ancient Greek poetry presented to M. L. West on his seventieth birthday, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.204-227
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