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Women in literature. --- Latin drama (Comedy) --- History and criticism. --- Plautus, Titus Maccius --- Terence --- Characters --- Women. --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism --- Terenz --- Terenzio Afro, Publio --- Plaute --- Plauto, Tito Maccio --- Terentius Afer, Publius --- Afer, Publius Terentius --- Terentius, P. --- Afro, Publio Terencio --- Terencjusz --- Terent︠s︡iĭ, Publiĭ --- Terencio --- Terencio Afro, Publio --- Terentios --- Terenzio --- Terentius Apher, Publius --- Apher, Publius Terentius --- טרנטיוס --- Plavt, Tit Makt︠s︡iĭ --- Plautus, M. Accius --- Plautus --- Plautus, M. Attius --- Plautus, Marcus Actius --- Plautus, Marcus Accius --- Plautus, Marcus Attius --- Plauto, Marco Accio --- Plautos, Titos Makkios --- פלאוטוס
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Greek sources, postdating Pythagoras by hundreds of years, suggest that women played an important part in his school. Pseudonymous texts attributed to Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, and other female Pythagoreans, have also come down to us. Such testimonies are usually discussed as evidence for life in Pythagorean communities. Pythagorean Women Philosophers maps an entire web of textual tradition to offer something more complex: a rewriting of Greek philosophical history so as to include female intellectuals.0Bringing together little-known testimonies to women's contributions to Pythagorean thought, this book shows what modern readers may learn from them. Such testimonies first surface in fragments of Peripatetic writers, and continued to shape the reception of Pythagoreanism until the seventh century CE. They include sayings, philosophical treatises, and letters attributed to Pythagorean women, and form a vital undercurrent of the Pythagorean tradition. Against the tendency to discuss these0testimonies in terms of their validity as historical accounts of the life in Pythagorean communities, Dutsch contends that their value lies not in what they may represent but in what they are-accounts of Greek philosophical history that emphatically include women. Consequently, the book shifts attention from texts as historical testimonies to texts as literary artefacts engaged in creating a vision of the past, producing meaning in dialogue with other texts, especially the dialogues of Plato. Pythagorean women emerge from this overview not as individuals but as potent cultural icons that exist in the Greek culture's evolving imaginarium, challenging us to rethink our own accounts of Greek philosophical history.
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school. --- Women philosophers --- Women --- History --- Intellectual life --- Philosophy --- Greece --- Antiquities --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- Women - Philosophy --- Greece - Antiquities
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Latin plays were written for audiences whose gender perspectives and expectations were shaped by life in Rome, and the crowds watching the plays included both female citizens and female slaves. Relationships between men and women, ideas of masculinity and femininity, the stock characters of dowered wife and of prostitute—all of these are frequently staged in Roman tragedies and comedies. This is the first book to confront directly the role of women in Roman Republican plays of all genres, as well as to examine the role of gender in the influence of this tradition on later dramatists from Shakespeare to Sondheim.
Women in literature. --- Latin drama --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Latin drama -- History and criticism --- Women in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Drama --- Latin drama. --- Ancient, classical & medieval.
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A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contains narrative structures and motifs that show the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors.
Laments --- Ruins in literature. --- Cities and towns in literature. --- History and criticism --- Complancha --- Lamentations --- Elegiac poetry --- Mourning customs --- History and criticism. --- Ruins in literature --- Cities and towns in literature
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