Female acts in Greek tragedy

Acknowledgments ix Introductory Note and Abbreviations xi Introduction 3 I. The Politics of Tragic Lamentation 19 II. The Contradictions of Tragic Marriage 57 III. Women as Moral Agents in Greek Tragedy 107 III.1. Virgins, Wives, and Mothers Penelope as Paradigm 109 III.2. Sacrificial Virgins: The Ethics of Lamentation in Sophocles' Electra 145 III.3. Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as Moral Agent 172 III4. Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras 201 III.5. Tragic Wives: Medea's Divided Self 243 III.6. Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides 272 IV Anodos Dramas: Euripides' Alcestis and Helen 301 Conclusion 333 Bibliography 339 General Index 369 Index Locurum 387