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A study of captive women's laments that shows how classical dramatists used empathy to pierce the barrier between the Greek and barbarian worlds.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Men's Songs and Women's Songs
  • Chapter 2. Identifying with the Enemy: Love, Loss, and Longing in the Persians of Aeschylus
  • Chapter 3. Athenians and Trojans
  • Chapter 4. The Captive Woman's Lament and Her Revenge in Euripides' Hecuba
  • Chapter 5. A River Shouting with Tears: Euripides' Trojan Women
  • Chapter 6. The Captive Woman in the House: Euripides' Andromache
  • Conclusion: The Tears of Pity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

The Captive Womans Lament in Greek Tragedy

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292722187, 978-0292722187
      ISBN10: 0292722184
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of captive women's laments that shows how classical dramatists used empathy to pierce the barrier between the Greek and barbarian worlds.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1. Men's Songs and Women's Songs
      • Chapter 2. Identifying with the Enemy: Love, Loss, and Longing in the Persians of Aeschylus
      • Chapter 3. Athenians and Trojans
      • Chapter 4. The Captive Woman's Lament and Her Revenge in Euripides' Hecuba
      • Chapter 5. A River Shouting with Tears: Euripides' Trojan Women
      • Chapter 6. The Captive Woman in the House: Euripides' Andromache
      • Conclusion: The Tears of Pity
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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