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The play of words : blood ties and power relations in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Giulia Maria Chesi

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Chesi, Giulia Maria
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Blood ties and power relations in Aeschylus' Oresteia
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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2014.
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xii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

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Machine generated contents note: How I re-read the Oresteia: language, narrative and womanhood -- Agamemnon -- I.Clytemnestra and Iphigeneia's sacrifice -- 1.Clytemnestra or Iphigeneia's mother and Agamemnon's wife -- 2.Mother, daughter and sacrifice -- 3.Iphigeneia's silence and paternal violence -- 4.Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's dilemma and paternal treachery -- 5.Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's dilemma and maternal sophronein -- 6.Clytemnestra's motherhood, the Alastor and the Erinys -- 7.Conclusions -- II.Cassandra, the chorus and Iphigeneia's sacrifice -- 1.Clytemnestra as an adulterous wife and a bad mother -- 2.Problematising Clytemnestra's representation as a bad mother and a bad wife -- 3.Conclusions -- III.Clytemnestra and the war against Troy -- 1.The chorus on the war against Troy -- 2.Clytemnestra on the war against Troy -- 3.The voice of the other -- 4.Agamemnon on the war against Troy -- 5.The misuse of power -- 6.Conclusions -- Choephoroi -- I.Clytemnestra as mother-echthros and non-tropheus -- 1.The nurse on trephein -- 2.Clytemnestra on trephein -- 3.Agamemnon as father-tropheus -- 4.Clytemnestra as mother non-tropheus and female tyrant -- 5.Conclusions -- II.Clytemnestra as mother-echthros and non-tokeus -- 1.Agamemnon as father-tokeus and Clytemnestra as mother non-tokeus -- 2.The father-tokeus and the estrangement between mother and son -- 3.Conclusions -- III.Clytemnestra as mother-philos -- 1.The adulterous wife is still a mother -- 2.Clytemnestra as mother-tropheus -- 3.Clytemnestra as mother-tokeus -- 4.Maternal sophronein -- 5.Clytemnestra as mother-philos and the death of her son -- 6.Divine command against the mother and human suffering for the mother -- 7.Conclusions -- IV.Shall I kill the mother? The reality (of the metaphors) of son and mother -- 1.The blood of the mother, once again -- 2.The maternal continuum, once again -- 3.Clytemnestra's dream and metaphorical motherhood -- 4.Orestes and Apollonian logos -- 5.Orestes' logos and biological motherhood -- 6.Conclusions -- Eumenides -- 1.The Erinyes and maternal sophronein -- 2.The Erinyes, their painful memory and female genealogy -- 3.The legitimacy of words -- 4.Athena's persuasion, the Erinyes and/or Eumenides -- 5.Zeus, his Erinyes and the Trojan War -- 6.The son, the father and the war against Troy -- 7.Conclusions.
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ISBN
3110334313
9783110334319
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-205) and indexes.
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