Playing the other : gender and society in classical Greek literature

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Label

Playing the other : gender and society in classical Greek literature

Title remainder

gender and society in classical Greek literature

Statement of responsibility

Froma I. Zeitlin

Creator

• Zeitlin, Froma I

Subject

• Gender identity in literature
• Greek literature -- History and criticism
• Literature and society -- Greece
• Women and literature -- Greece
• Women in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

Relations between the sexes were among the most pervasive concerns of ancient Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of sex roles in domestic and political spheres to the organization of the cosmos as a pantheon of gods and goddesses. In Playing the Other Froma I. Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens. With incisive analysis and theoretical sophistication, she demonstrates the workings of gender in Greek social, religious, and cultural practices and in ideas about nature and culture, public and private, citizen and outsider, self and other, mortal and immortal

Member of

• Women in culture and society

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

880.9/352042

Index

index present

LC call number

PA3016.W65

LC item number

Z44 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Women in culture and society