Appendix: A Comparative Survey of Pindar’s Meters §1. In what follows, I offer a diachronic study of the two major types of meter inherited by Pindar, the so-called Aeolic and the dactylo-epitrite. My goal is to show the affinities between these meters in Greek song and the… Read more
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Acknowledgments I have received a great deal of support during the writing of this book. A University of Houston New Faculty Research Grant and a summer grant from the University of Houston Women’s Studies Program allowed me to complete the bulk of the research and writing, and… Read more
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Chapter 1. Men’s Songs and Women’s Songs Are the voices of women in men’s poetry representative of women’s independent song traditions? What role, if any, did women’s song traditions play in the shaping of men’s epic traditions (and later, tragedy)? In recent years scholars have begun to… Read more
Chapter 2. Identifying with the Enemy: Love, Loss, and Longing in the Persians of Aeschylus In the first two decades of the fifth century BC, the century in which Greek tragedy as we know it flourished, the Greeks were attacked twice by the vastly larger army and… Read more
Chapter 3. Athenians and Trojans Before we can examine the laments and plight of the captive Trojan women in Euripides’ Trojan War plays in a meaningful way, it is first necessary to establish the Athenians’ particular relationship with the Trojan War. What associations does the Trojan War… Read more
Chapter 4. The Captive Woman’s Lament and her Revenge in Euripides’ Hecuba Hecuba, a wretch forlorn and captive, when she saw Polyxena first slaughtered, and her son, her Polydorus, on the wild sea-beach next met the mourning woman’s view, then reft of sense did she… Read more
Chapter 5. A River Shouting with Tears: Euripides’ Trojan Women The Trojan Women, first produced in 416 BC, is both the easiest and most difficult of the plays under discussion to interpret, and indeed it is this deceptive ease that prompted the writing of this book. … Read more
Chapter 6. The Captive Woman in the House: Euripides’ Andromache Euripides’ Andromache may not have been originally produced in Athens, if we may trust the comment of a scholiast at line 445 of the play, nor can we be certain of the date of its production, which… Read more
