CC 348/WS 345 WOMEN IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

Dr Barbara Goff

Oresteia 1 study questions
 

The laws and everyday life of classical Athens seem predicated on a ideology of women's inferiority. Does the Agamemnon seem to you to subscribe to a similar ideology? If not, why might that be so?

Clyemestra seems often to be represented in terms of gender inversion. What other inversions do you read in the play?

How does the play represent women's relation to language?

Given your understanding of this play, do you think that women were present in the audience for Athenian tragedies?

 


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