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Book SynopsisAn illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles’ Trachiniae, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and Euripides’ Alcestis.
Trade Review"An important new work from the perspective of gender (rather than exclusively feminist) theory, this volume should appeal to professors and graduate students in the classics."- Choice
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity
- The Tragic Exchange
- Reaffirmation, Resistance, Negotiation
- The Social Economy of Exchange
- The Subject of Exchange
- Part One. Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles’ Trachiniae
- One. “The Noblest Law”: The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject
- The Final Exchange
- Heracles: Subject under Siege
- Hyllus: The Reluctant Ephebe
- Two. The Foreclosed Female Subject
- Iole, Deianira, and the Triangle of Exchange
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Anti dōrōn dōta: Deianira’s Gift-Giving
- Status and Gender
- A Woman’s kleos
- Three. Alterity and Intersubjectivity
- Interpellation of the Other, Creation of the Self
- Spatial Models of Self and Other: Pandora and kalokagathia
- The Virgin in the Garden
- Part Two. The Violence of kharis In Aeschylus’s Agamemnon
- Four. The Commodity Fetish and the Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter
- Marx and the Fetishized Economy
- The Occluded Exchange
- The Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter
- Five. Agalma ploutou: Accounting for Helen
- The Disenchantment of the agalma
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Khrusamoibos sōmatōn: The Commodification of the Male Subject
- Six. Fear and Pity: Clytemnestra and Cassandra
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Androboulon kear: Clytemnestra’s Transgressive Identity
- A Lament for the Father
- Part Three. Mourning and Matricide in Euripides’ Alcestis
- Seven. The Shadow of the Object: Loss, Mourning, and Reparation
- Eight. Agonistic Identity and the Superlative Subject
- The Matriarch of the oikos and Alcestis’s Domestic Politics
- The Superlative Subject and Her Husband
- From Tragedy to the Symposium
- Nine. The Mirror of xenia and the Paternal Symbolic
- From Impossible kharis to the agalma Economy
- From physis to praxis
- Heracles and the Mirror of xenia
- The Final Exchange
- Conclusion. Too Intimate Commerce
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Locorum
