Anxiety Veiled : : Euripides and the Traffic in Women / / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz.
What should we make of the prominence of female characters in the plays of Euripides? Not, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz concludes, that he was either a misogynist or a feminist before his time. Tracking the relationship between male anxiety and female desire in his drama, she demonstrates in this rich an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Fetishized Victims
- 1. The Sacrificial Virgins: Iphigenia and Others
- 2. The Sacrificial Wife: Alcestis
- Part II. Vengeful Destroyers
- 3. The Terrifying Mater Dolorosa: Hekabe
- 4. Vindictive Wife, Murderous Mother: Medea
- 5. Sacrificial Son and Vengeful Destroyer: Hippolytos and Phaedra
- Part III. Men United
- 6. Renegotiating the Oedipus: Theseus and Hippolytos
- 7. Raped or Seduced? and Abandoned: Kreousa, Ion, Xouthos
- Works Cited
- Index