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Playing the Other - Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Playing the Other - Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Series: Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
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Relations between the sexes was a pervasive concern of ancient
Greek thought and literature, extending from considerations of
masculine and feminine roles in domestic and political spheres to
the organization of the cosmos in a pantheon of gods and goddesses.
In "Playing the Other" Froma Zeitlin explores the diversity and
complexity of these interactions through the most influential
literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from
epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the theatrical
productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens.
Zeitlin demonstrates the indispensable workings of gender as a
major factor in Greek social, religious, and cultural practices and
in more abstract ideas about nature and culture, public and
private, citizen and outsider, self and other, and mortal and
immortal. Focusing on the prominence of female figures in these
male authored texts, she enlarges our perspective on critical
components of political order and civic identity by including
issues of sexuality, the body, modes of male and female maturation,
and speculations about parentage, kinship, and reproductive
strategies. Along with considerations of genre, poetics, and
theatrical mimesis, she points to the powerful mythmaking
capacities of Greek culture for creating memorable paradigms and
dramatic scenarios that far exceed simple notions of male and
female opposition and predictable enforcement of social norms.
Consisting of both new and revised essays, "Playing the Other" is a
wide-ranging account of a central category of Greek literature by a
scholar who pioneered an approach to classics through the
perspective of gender.
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