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Hardcover Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics Book

ISBN: 0822630664

ISBN13: 9780822630661

Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics

In Greek literature from Homer to Euripides, the Nurse is a central figure of authority, but until now no one has attempted a systematic, comprehensive study of her. Examining Nurse figures in ancient Greek epic and drama, Helen Pournara Karydas focuses on the the verbal manifestations of the Nurse's authority-advice, approval, disapproval, directions and orders. She reveals its roots in the models of female hierarchy in early choral lyric performances,...

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