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The representation of women in Athenian tragedy was performed exclusively by men and it is likely (although the evidence is not conclusive) that it was performed solely for men as well. [1] The question whether or not women were admitted at theatre is widely contested and tends to polarise fronts. [ 2 ]
In Spring 2008 she was the 94th Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California, Berkeley; her Sather Lectures focused on the restaging of Greek tragedies in America, and the ways in which modern productions of these plays explored themes of contemporary concern including slavery, race, the status of women, immigration ...
Kennedy is the author of two monographs. The first is 'Athena's Justice: Athena, Athens, and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy'. [7] The second is 'Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City'. [8] [9] [10]
The economic power of Athenian women was legally constrained. Historians have traditionally considered that ancient Greek women, particularly in Classical Athens, lacked economic influence. [146] Athenian women were forbidden from entering a contract worth more than a medimnos of barley, enough to feed an average family for six days. [147]
Froma I. Zeitlin (born 5 September 1933) is an American Classics scholar.She specializes in ancient Greek literature, with particular interests in epic, drama and prose fiction, along with work in gender criticism, and the relationship between art and text in the context of the visual culture of antiquity. [2]
'Phoenician Women: "Deviant" Thebans Out of Time', Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy, edited by Sarah Olsen and Mario Telò (Bloomsbury, 2022) pp. 176-185 'Choral Mirroring in Euripides' Phaethon' , Greek Drama V: Studies in the Theatre of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE , edited by C. W. Marshall and H. Marshall (Bloomsbury ...
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
Women, as represented by Calonice, are sly hedonists in need of firm guidance and direction. In contrast, Lysistrata is portrayed to be an extraordinary woman with a large sense of individual and social responsibility. She has convened a meeting of women from various Greek city-states that are at war with each other. Soon after she confides in ...