Helene P Foley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1163417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helene P Foley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helene P |
| FAMILY NAME | Foley |
| SIGNATURE | FOLEY H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ritual Irony
Greek, I have translated all quotations and have transliterated the Greek wherever possible, indicating omega (long 0) and eta (long e) with a macron (0 and e).In transliterating Greek names I have used the most fa miliar version.All translations aim to be as literal as possible and are my own except where noted otherwise.I have confined consideration of technical problems to the notes and ap pendixes, aiming only to make the reader aware of thei…
Aristophanes and Politics: New Studies
The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the “political” in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that “politics” as reflected in Aristophanes’ plays remains a fertile, and even urgent, area of inquiry, as political developments in our own time distinctly color the ways in which we articulate questio…
Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides
Greek, I have translated all quotations and have transliterated the Greek wherever possible, indicating omega (long 0) and eta (long e) with a macron (0 and e).In transliterating Greek names I have used the most fa miliar version.All translations aim to be as literal as possible and are my own except where noted otherwise.I have confined consideration of technical problems to the notes and ap pendixes, aiming only to make the reader aware of thei…
Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy
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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example …
Sex and War on the American Stage: Lysistrata in performance, 1930–2012 by Emily B. Klein (review)
Reflections of Women in Antiquity
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Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of wome…
The Homeric Hymns: Interpretive Essays
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 433 conclusions auxquelles il parvient : il montre comment le mendiant Iros de l’Odyssée peut être interprété comme un doublet « parodique » d’Ulysse et comment, de même, Barabbas peut être tenu pour un doublet de Jésus (273–275). Le rapprochement qu’il fait de ces deux cas de « doublets » les désigne à l’attention du lecteur de manière interne à chacune des deux traditions, et l’apport demeure, que l’on accompagne ou …
Antigone on the contemporary world stage
Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin
Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic t…
Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy (review)
Reviewed by: The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy Helene Foley Casey Dué . The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 189. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70946-3. Dué's study hopes "to show that the Athenians had a particular appreciation, inherited from epic, of the universality of wartime suffering to the extent that they could explore their own sorrows by experiencing that of their enemies" (5). In…
Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Agamemnon and His Daughters (review)
Agamemnon and His Daughters, like many recent productions including Cavander's (and John Barton's) own The Greeks or Ariane Mnouchkine's Les Atrides, creates a new tetralogy from an assortment of Greek originals: Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, an Electra that draws from Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and Euripides' Iphigeneia Among the Taurians. Using Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis as a prologue to Aeschylus brings Ip…
A Question of Origins: Goddess Cults Greek and Modern
Although Greco-Roman material has been of considerable interest to the creators of modern goddess cults, there has been little response to their claims from classicists, who apparently view their efforts as marginal and eccentric.2 Indeed, unlike the study of the evidence for the worship of goddesses in pre-history and in ancient civilizations, goddess cults and their theorists have found a marginal place in the academic world, but operate largel…
The Comic Body in Greek Art and Drama
Pandora: Women in Classical Greece . By Ellen D. Reeder
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary and Interpretive Essays
The Homeric to composed in the late seventh or early sixth century BCE, is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of thi…
Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece
Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, D…
Penelope as Moral Agent
In his Poetics, Aristotle defines tragic character in relation to tragic choice. Character, Aristotle argues, reveals a prohairesis or a process of undertaking moral commitment in which a person chooses to act or to abstain from action in circumstances where the choice is not obvious (Poetics 1450b8-10).1 The central moral decision on which the action of the Odyssey turns is Penelope’s.
Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Background: The Eleusinian Mysteries and Women's Rites for Demeter
A question of origins: Goddess cults Greek and modern 1
Reflections of Women in Antiquity
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/1011/thumbnail.jpg
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter , composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated …
The "Female Intruder" Reconsidered: Women in Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae
Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides
Greek, I have translated all quotations and have transliterated the Greek wherever possible, indicating omega (long 0) and eta (long e) with a macron (0 and e).In transliterating Greek names I have used the most fa miliar version.All translations aim to be as literal as possible and are my own except where noted otherwise.I have confined consideration of technical problems to the notes and ap pendixes, aiming only to make the reader aware of thei…
Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Aristophanes and Politics: New Studies
The essays in this volume explore the many aspects of the “political” in the plays of Greek comic dramatist Aristophanes (5th century BCE), posing a variety of questions and approaching them through diverse methodological lenses. They demonstrate that “politics” as reflected in Aristophanes’ plays remains a fertile, and even urgent, area of inquiry, as political developments in our own time distinctly color the ways in which we articulate questio…
A question of origins: Goddess cults Greek and modern 1
Sex and State in Ancient Greece
Sex and State in Ancient Greece
Symbolic Patterning in Sologub's Melkij Bes
The "Female Intruder" Reconsidered: Women in Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae
Antigone: Rites for the Dead
Classics and Cinema
Commentary on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Background: The Eleusinian Mysteries and Women's Rites for Demeter
A question of origins: Goddess cults Greek and modern 1
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter , composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated …
Penelope as Moral Agent
In his Poetics, Aristotle defines tragic character in relation to tragic choice. Character, Aristotle argues, reveals a prohairesis or a process of undertaking moral commitment in which a person chooses to act or to abstain from action in circumstances where the choice is not obvious (Poetics 1450b8-10).1 The central moral decision on which the action of the Odyssey turns is Penelope’s.
Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece
Why did Greek society foster social conditions, especially early marriage with its attendant early childbearing, that were known to be dangerous for both mother and child? What were the actual causes of death among women described as dying of childbirth in the Hippocratic Epidemics? Why did families choose to portray labor scenes on tombstones when the Greek commemorative tradition otherwise avoided reference to suffering and illness? In Birth, D…
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary and Interpretive Essays
The Homeric to composed in the late seventh or early sixth century BCE, is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of thi…
Pandora: Women in Classical Greece . By Ellen D. Reeder
The Comic Body in Greek Art and Drama
A Question of Origins: Goddess Cults Greek and Modern
Although Greco-Roman material has been of considerable interest to the creators of modern goddess cults, there has been little response to their claims from classicists, who apparently view their efforts as marginal and eccentric.2 Indeed, unlike the study of the evidence for the worship of goddesses in pre-history and in ancient civilizations, goddess cults and their theorists have found a marginal place in the academic world, but operate largel…
Agamemnon and His Daughters (review)
Agamemnon and His Daughters, like many recent productions including Cavander's (and John Barton's) own The Greeks or Ariane Mnouchkine's Les Atrides, creates a new tetralogy from an assortment of Greek originals: Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis, Aeschylus' Agamemnon, an Electra that draws from Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and Euripides' Iphigeneia Among the Taurians. Using Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis as a prologue to Aeschylus brings Ip…
Choral Identity in Greek Tragedy
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin
Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic t…
Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy (review)
Reviewed by: The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy Helene Foley Casey Dué . The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Pp. ix, 189. $45.00. ISBN 0-292-70946-3. Dué's study hopes "to show that the Athenians had a particular appreciation, inherited from epic, of the universality of wartime suffering to the extent that they could explore their own sorrows by experiencing that of their enemies" (5). In…
Antigone on the contemporary world stage
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of wome…
The Homeric Hymns: Interpretive Essays
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 433 conclusions auxquelles il parvient : il montre comment le mendiant Iros de l’Odyssée peut être interprété comme un doublet « parodique » d’Ulysse et comment, de même, Barabbas peut être tenu pour un doublet de Jésus (273–275). Le rapprochement qu’il fait de ces deux cas de « doublets » les désigne à l’attention du lecteur de manière interne à chacune des deux traditions, et l’apport demeure, que l’on accompagne ou …
Reflections of Women in Antiquity
https://works.swarthmore.edu/alum-books/1011/thumbnail.jpg
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