| Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays Contributor(s): Mendelsohn, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199249563 ISBN-13: 9780199249565 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: The first full-length study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women to appear in fifty years, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays uses fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity to demonstrate at last the formal elegance and intellectual complexity of two works that are still dismissed as artistic failures within the poet's oeuvre. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Performing Arts |
| Dewey: 082 |
| LCCN: 2002072558 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.4" W x 8.72" (1.03 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first full-length study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women to appear in fifty years, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays uses fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity to demonstrate at last the formal elegance and intellectual complexity of two works that are still dismissed as artistic failures within the poet's oeuvre. |