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  2. Representation of women in Athenian tragedy - Wikipedia

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    A woman displaying traits of the heroic Grecian male was not portrayed in a positive light. Euripides' Medea is the prime example. Her name in Greek means "cunning" and is also the word for the Persians (the Greek’s greatest foreign enemy). [11] Most of the time, a woman is full of fear Too weak to defend herself or to bear the sight of steel

  3. Women in classical Athens - Wikipedia

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    As women play a prominent role in much Athenian literature, it initially seems as though there is a great deal of evidence for the lives and experiences of Athenian women. [5] However, the surviving literary evidence is written solely by men: ancient historians have no direct access to the beliefs and experiences of Classical Athenian women. [ 5 ]

  4. Greek tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Greek tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, romanized: tragōidía) is one of the three principal theatrical genres from Ancient Greece and Greek-inhabited Anatolia, along with comedy and the satyr play. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy.

  5. Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices - Wikipedia

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    A priest or priestess was not allowed to enter the house of the deceased or to take part in the funerary rites, as death was seen as a cause of spiritual impurity or pollution. [7] This is in line with the Greek idea that even the gods could be polluted by death, and hence anything related to the sacred had to be kept away from death and dead ...

  6. Former Playboy playmate jumps to her death with 7-year ... - AOL

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    A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...

  7. A woman died in her Sacramento apartment last year due to a ...

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    “An autopsy confirmed the cause of death,” states the coroner’s report, obtained by The Sacramento Bee through a California Public Records Act request. “The furnace was on in the residence ...