Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in <i>Alcestis, Hippolytus</i>, and <i>Hecuba</i> 9780822381792

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Euripides and the Poetics ofSorrow

Euripides and the Poetics ofSorrow

'.' ART, GENDER, AND

COMMEMORATION IN

ALCESTIS, HIPPOLYTUS,

AND HECUBA

Charles Segal

Duke University Press

Durham and London

1993

© 1993 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 00

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. The excerpt from On Not H

Knowing Greek" from The Common

Reader by Virginia Woolf, copyright 1925 by Harcourt Brace & Company and renewed 1953 by Leonard Woolf, is reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Fr£lntispiece: Votive relief, ca.

46~ B.C.,

of mourning Athena.

Athens, Acropolis Museum.

Foto MJ.rburg / Art Resource, N. Y.

FOR

JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT

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