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Civilization, Homeric --- Cults --- -Excavations (Archaeology) --- -Hero worship --- -Hero cult --- Worship --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Religions --- Sects --- Homeric civilization --- Civilization, Homeric. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Hero worship --- -Civilization, Homeric --- Hero cult --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology
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In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century b.c. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality. Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues.From gossip to seductive persuasion, women's verbal strategies in the theater potentially subverted social and political hierarchy, McClure argues, whether the women characters were overtly or covertly duplicitous, in pursuit of adultery, or imitating male orators. Such characterization helped justify the regulation of women's speech in the democratic polis. The fact that women's verbal strategies were also used to portray male transvestites and manipulators, however, suggests that a greater threat of subversion lay among the spectators' own ranks, among men of uncertain birth and unscrupulous intent, such as demagogues skilled in the art of persuasion. Traditionally viewed as outsiders with ambiguous loyalties, deceitful and tireless in their pursuit of eros, women provided the dramatic poets with a vehicle for illustrating the dangerous consequences of political power placed in the wrong hands.
Greek drama --- Women and literature --- Greek language --- Sex role in literature. --- Speech in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sex differences. --- Spoken Greek. --- Athens (Greece) --- Intellectual life. --- Adonia. --- Areopagus. --- Assembly. --- Bacchylides. --- Baubo. --- Boulē. --- Cimon. --- Cleisthenes. --- Cleomedes. --- Demeter. --- Demosthenes. --- Diodorus Siculus. --- Hesiod. --- Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. --- Lysias. --- Nicias. --- Nossis. --- Pharmaka. --- Rayor, D. --- Rothwell, K. --- Sappho. --- Sophocles. --- Thelgein. --- Theognis. --- Thesmophoria. --- Verbal genres: defined. --- actors. --- aischrologia. --- arrhēta. --- courtesans. --- curse tablets. --- demagogues. --- dokimasia. --- doxa. --- epitaphios. --- female choruses. --- gossip. --- gynaecocracy. --- invective against women. --- isonomia. --- isēgoria. --- kokuō. --- kosmēsis. --- kurios. --- lamentation. --- law courts. --- obscenity. --- ololugē. --- parrhēsia. --- partheneion. --- persuasion. --- prostitution. --- rhetoric. --- wedding ritual. --- women: adultery of.
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Homer --- Epic poetry, Greek --- -Literature and history --- -Oral tradition --- -Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- Greek epic poetry --- Epic poetry, Classical --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -History and criticism --- -Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Homerus --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- Criticism and interpretation --- -Homer --- Homère --- Literature and history --- Oral tradition --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hóiméar --- Homer. --- Civilization, Homeric. --- Civilization, Mycenaean, in literature. --- Civilisation mycénienne --- Civilisation homérique. --- Dans la littérature. --- Homère. --- Settings --- Cadre du récit.
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