Abstract
This chapter introduces the book by examining the place of fragments within tragic scholarship as well as scholarly trends in the tragic representation of women, and by surveying the contents of the different chapters and suggesting pathways for future work.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy |
Editors | P. J. Finglass, Lyndsay Coo |
Place of Publication | Cambridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1–16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781108861199 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781108495141 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2 Jul 2020 |
Keywords
- Greek literature
- Greek tragedy
- fragments
- papyri
- female characters
- Aeschylus
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- feminist criticism