Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (review)

In this deeply thoughtful book, Helene Foley argues that Athenian tragic playwrights found gender a valuable tool for thinking about the social order and confronting intractable social and philosophical problems. Unlike readers who see in tragedy only validation of the Athenian sex-gender system, Foley sees tragedy raising questions and destabilizing accepted ideas. By aiming "to capture the strangeness and difference of Greek representations of cultural, historical, and ethical issues from our own" (337), Foley locates the plays she studies in their specific social and historical context

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