Klytaimestra: Genetic and Gender Conflict in Greek Tragedy

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Klytaimestra: Genetic and Gender Conflict in Greek Tragedy

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Klytaimestra is depicted as the accomplisher of great evil, in Archaic and Classical epic, lyric, and tragedy in ancient Greece. In the view of many, her characterization in ancient literature stands at the beginning of an enduring Western literary tradition of misogyny. In Homer’s Odyssey (11.433-434) she is referred to as the woman who has permanently ruined the reputation of every woman in the world, including ἐσσομένῃσιν ὀπίσσω/ θηλυτέρῃσι γυναιξί, καὶ ἥ κ᾽ ἐυεργὸς ἔῃσιν, “those of women-...

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Doctoral

Date created

2019

Creator

Mackay, Maria

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/9194

Related subjects

Klytaimestra / women in Greek tragedy / biopoetics / evolutionary literary theory / gender conflict in tragedy / antagonistic coevolution in literature / new critical approaches to the Oresteia

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