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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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Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that established his place as a leading authority on early Greek philosophy. The two volumes that comprise Studies in Greek Philosophy include nearly forty contributions by this acknowledged master of the philosophical essay. Many of these pieces are now considered to be classics in the field. Perhaps more than any other modern scholar, Gregory Vlastos was responsible for raising standards of research, analysis, and exposition in classical philosophy to new levels of excellence. His essays have served as paradigms of scholarship for several generations. Available for the first time in a comprehensive collection, these contributions reveal the author's ability to combine the skills of a philosopher, philologist, and historian of ideas in addressing some of the most difficult problems of ancient philosophy. Volume I collects Vlastos's essays on Presocratic philosophy. Wide-ranging concept studies link Greek science, religion, and politics with philosophy. Individual studies illuminate the thought of major philosophers such as Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. A magisterial series of studies on Zeno of Elea reveals the author's power in source criticism and logical analysis. Volume II contains essays on the thought of Socrates, Plato, and later thinkers and essays dealing with ethical, social, and political issues as well as metaphysics, science, and the foundations of mathematics.

Philosophy, Ancient. --- A History of Western Philosophy. --- Aeschylus. --- Alexander Polyhistor. --- American Philosophical Association. --- American philosophy. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anaximander. --- Anaximenes. --- Ancient Greece. --- Ancient Greek comedy. --- Ancient Greek religion. --- Ancient philosophy. --- Apeiron (cosmology). --- Aristotelianism. --- Aristotle. --- Atomism. --- Basileus. --- Christian mortalism. --- Classical Greece. --- Classical Philology (journal). --- Classical language. --- Cleisthenes of Sicyon. --- Constitution of the Athenians. --- Contradiction. --- Creative Evolution (book). --- Critical Essays (Orwell). --- Democritus. --- Diodorus Cronus. --- Divine law. --- Empedocles. --- Encyclopedia of Philosophy. --- Ephorus. --- Epicureanism. --- Epicurus. --- Euripides. --- Euthydemus (dialogue). --- Existence. --- First principle. --- Greco-Roman mysteries. --- Greek Philosophy. --- Greek World. --- Greek historiography. --- Greek literature. --- Greek mathematics. --- Greek mythology. --- Greek underworld. --- Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture). --- Herodotus. --- Hesiod. --- Hiero (Xenophon). --- Hippasus. --- Histories (Herodotus). --- Hypothesis. --- Inference. --- Instant. --- Ipse dixit. --- Isocrates. --- Isonomia. --- Leucippus. --- Lucretius. --- Metaphysics (Aristotle). --- Metaphysics. --- Notion (philosophy). --- Oracle. --- Parmenides (dialogue). --- Parmenides. --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical Studies. --- Philosophical methodology. --- Philosophical theory. --- Philosophy of science. --- Philosophy. --- Physics (Aristotle). --- Plutarch. --- Polemic. --- Polemos. --- Political philosophy. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Property (philosophy). --- Protagoras (dialogue). --- Protagoras. --- Pseudo-Plutarch. --- Pythagoras. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Reason. --- Sextus (praenomen). --- Sophist. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Fundamentals. --- Theaetetus (dialogue). --- Theodicy. --- Theogony. --- Theology. --- Theophrastus. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thrasymachus. --- Xenophanes. --- Zeno of Elea.