Eurykleia and her successors : female figures of authority in Greek poetics / Helen Pournara Karydas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karydas, Helen Pournara, 1946-

Series:

Greek studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer.

Aeschylus.

Sophocles.

Euripides.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Women and literature--Greece--History.

Women and literature.

Eurycleia (Greek mythology) in literature.

Euripides--Characters--Nurses.

Sophocles--Characters--Nurses.

Aeschylus--Characters--Nurses.

Homer--Characters--Eurycleia.

Older women in literature.

Authority in literature.

Nurses in literature.

Nurses.

History.

Greece.

Physical Description:

viii, 198 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1998]

Summary:

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, demonstrating how the poetics of female paideia in those performances are appropriated and reshaped in the poetics of epic and tragedy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-190) and index.

ISBN:

0822630664

0822630672

OCLC:

36225200