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Gender and Communication in Euripidesâ Plays
Between Song and Silence
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 296
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The prominent role of women in Greek drama has always fascinated readers. This book proposes that women in Euripidesâ plays communicate in ways constructed by the tragic genre itself as âfemale.â Yet these womenâs words are surprisingly not uniformly dangerous or excessively emotional, as has traditionally been thought. Rather, Euripidesâ women resort to âfemaleâ ways of talking in order to enable others to understand them and their unique point-of-view. Aspects of womenâs speechâsong, silence and secret-keeping as female verbal genres, and the challenges of speaking out of placeâcontribute to Euripidesâ portrayal of women as different from men. Originating in a culture where putting women under scrutiny was part of daily life, Euripidesâ tragedies dramatise womenâs constant struggle to control language.
J. H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Ph.D. (1999) in Classical Philology, University of Michigan, is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Research interests include gender in Greek tragedy, and Roman sexual scandals in Suetoniusâ biographies.
All those interested in Greek drama, gender studies, theater studies, Ancient Greek philology, and Greek intellectual history.