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Froma I. Zeitlin

Playing the Other

Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature

484 pages,  6 x 9  © 1995
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Paper $29.00

ISBN: 9780226979229   Published November 1995

Foreword
Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction
Pt. 1: Gender and Paradigm: The Privileged Models
1: Figuring Fidelity in Homer's Odyssey
2: Signifying Difference: The Case of Hesiod's Pandora
3: The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in Aeschylus's Oresteia
Pt. 2: Gender and the Body: The Woman's Story
4: The Politics of Eros in the Danaid Trilogy of Aeschylus
5: The Body's Revenge: Dionysos and Tragic Action in Euripides' Hekabe
Pt. 3: Gender and Selfhood: The Boy's Story
6: The Power of Aphrodite: Eros and the Boundaries of the Self in
Euripides' Hippolytos
7: Mysteries of Identity and Designs of the Self in Euripides' Ion
Pt. 4: Gender and Mimesis: Theater and Identity
8: Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek
Drama
9: Travesties of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazousae
Bibliography
Index of Key Passages
General Index
Subjects



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