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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 translation of this poem, together with selected essays that give the reader a rich understanding of the Hymn's structure and artistry, its role in the religious life of the ancient world, and its meaning for the modern world.

Hymns, Greek (Classical) --- Demeter (Greek deity) in literature. --- Eleusinian mysteries in literature. --- Demeter (Greek deity) --- Translations into English. --- History and criticism. --- Poetry. --- Demeter (Greek deity) in literature --- Eleusinian mysteries --- Hymnes grecs anciens --- Eleusis, Mystères d' --- Hymn to Demeter. --- Eleusis, Mystères d' --- Eleusinian mysteries in literature --- Poetry --- History and criticism --- Translations into English --- Homeric hymns --- Homeric hymn to Demeter --- Homeric hymns. --- Hymnos eis Dēmētra --- Inni omerici --- Homērikoi hymnoi --- Hymni Homerici --- Traductions anglaises --- Histoire et critique --- Demeter --- In literature. --- Demetra --- 得墨忒耳 --- デーメーテール --- דמטר --- 데메테르 --- Деметра --- Дэмэтра --- Дэметра --- دمتر --- ديميتر --- Δαμάτηρ --- Δημήτηρ --- Δήμητρα --- Ceres --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) - Translations into English --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) - History and criticism. --- Demeter (Greek deity) - Poetry.

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Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition. Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural clichés about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Theatrical science --- Antiquity --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Women and literature --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Tragédie grecque --- Femmes et littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Women and literature - Greece --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- Drama --- Sociology of literature --- Classical Greek literature --- Theatre --- Images of women --- Book

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Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of making an archaic poetic tradition relevant to a democratic society. She explores the important mediating role played by choral poetry and ritual in the plays, asserting that Euripides' sacrificial metaphors and ritual performances link an anachronistic mythic ideal with a world dominated by "chance" or an incomprehensible divinity. Foley utilizes the ideas and methodology of contemporary literary theory and symbolic anthropology, addressing issues central to the emerging dialogue between the two fields. Her conclusions have important implications for the study of Greek tragedy as a whole and for our understanding of Euripides' tragic irony, his conception of religion, and the role of his choral odes.Assuming no specialized knowledge, Ritual Irony is aimed at all readers of Euripidean tragedy. It will prove particularly valuable to students and scholars of classics, comparative literature, and symbolic anthropology.

Didactic drama, Greek --- Irony in literature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Ritual in literature --- Sacrifice in literature --- Tragedy --- 875 EURIPIDES --- Drama --- Greek didactic drama --- Greek drama --- 875 EURIPIDES Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- History and criticism --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tragedy. --- Irony in literature. --- Ritual in literature. --- Sacrifice in literature. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval

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Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of making an archaic poetic tradition relevant to a democratic society. She explores the important mediating role played by choral poetry and ritual in the plays, asserting that Euripides' sacrificial metaphors and ritual performances link an anachronistic mythic ideal with a world dominated by "chance" or an incomprehensible divinity. Foley utilizes the ideas and methodology of contemporary literary theory and symbolic anthropology, addressing issues central to the emerging dialogue between the two fields. Her conclusions have important implications for the study of Greek tragedy as a whole and for our understanding of Euripides' tragic irony, his conception of religion, and the role of his choral odes.Assuming no specialized knowledge, Ritual Irony is aimed at all readers of Euripidean tragedy. It will prove particularly valuable to students and scholars of classics, comparative literature, and symbolic anthropology.

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