Ladies' Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy 9780691141886, 9780691141893, 0691141886, 9781400885749, 1400885744

InLadies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of

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Ladies' Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy
9780691141886, 9780691141893, 0691141886, 9781400885749, 1400885744

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Prins
Yopie

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Between Alpha and Omega......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
An Ode in Greek......Page 22
“Some Greek upon the Margin”......Page 26
“Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?”......Page 33
Translating Greek Tragedy......Page 47
Virginia Woolf’s Agamemnon Notebook......Page 56
Cassandra between the Stage and the Page......Page 66
OTOTOTOI......Page 73
“So Harsh a Chain of Suffering”......Page 78
Greek Verbs in Me......Page 83
“A Goodly Company of Lady-Translators”......Page 104
The Flight of Io, to America and Back to Greece......Page 116
Behold and See......Page 137
Electra at Girton College......Page 145
Electra at Smith College......Page 158
New Measures for New Women......Page 173
“A Brisk Interchange of Letters”......Page 176
Euripidean (De)Cadence......Page 184
H.D.’s Euripides: Feet, Feet, Feet, Feet......Page 201
Modern Maenads......Page 223
Jane Harrison’s Thrill......Page 230
Bryn Mawr College Rituals......Page 239
Reading the Surface......Page 254
Refractions of Antigone......Page 257
How to Read Ladies’ Greek......Page 263
Notes......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 286
Index......Page 310

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