Ladies' Greek : : Victorian Translations of Tragedy / / Yopie Prins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Prins, Yopie,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 30 halftones.

In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One. The Spell of Greek
• Chapter Two. ΙΩ in Prometheus Bound
• Chapter Three. The Education of Electra
• Chapter Four. Hippolytus in Ladies' Greek (with the Accents)
• Chapter Five. Dancing Greek Letters
• Postface
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index