The Play of Words

Blood Ties and Power Relations in Aeschylus' "Oresteia"
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-033431-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 217 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

"The play of words" examines the dynamics of interfamilial violence in the Oresteia. It argues that the key element of the play's discourse about violence is to be found in the inquiry for a definition of Clytemnestra's motherhood. The failure of this research challenges the reader with some open questions: who is Clytemnestra? Where is justice if a mother dies? By reading the play's narrative on interfamilial violence and matricide as a narrative of uncertainties in terms of the role of the mother figure, this book illustrates the complexity of the maternal role of Clytemnestra. It also breaks silence among scholars, who have generally portrayed Clytemnestra as the bad mother who kills the children's father and as the bad wife who betrays her husband.

Zielgruppe

Alle an antikem griechischen Theater Interessierten, Gender-Studies, Theaterwissenschaften.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chesi, Giulia Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Über Autor(innen)

G. M. Chesi, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg.