Women in Groups: Aeschylus's Suppliants and the Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy

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dc.contributor.authorMurnaghan, Sheila
dc.contributor.authorMurnaghan, Sheila
dc.date2023-05-17T16:25:24.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-22T13:02:53Z
dc.date.available2023-05-22T13:02:53Z
dc.date.issued2006-01-01
dc.date.submitted2017-01-09T09:21:08-08:00
dc.description.abstractThe disqualification of Aeschylus's Suppliants as our earliest surviving tragedy has inevitably led to new understandings of the play's prominent chorus. While the use of the chorus as a main character was once seen as a direct link with tragedy's past and a conservative reflection of tragedy's origins, that feature is now as likely to be viewed as an innovation. Thus H. Friis Johansen and E. H. Whittle, authors of the extensive 1980 commentary on the play, see the Suppliants as a "grandiose experiment with a group instead of a single person as the main carrier of the action." In their view this experiment stands outside the history of tragedy, telling us nothing about the evolution of the genre; it does not derive from the tragedies that immediately preceded the Suppliants, and it exerted "no influence on the development of Attic tragedy."
dc.identifier.citationMurnaghan, Sheila. (2006). Women in Groups: Aeschylus’s <em>Suppliants</em> and the Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy. In Victoria Pedrick and Steven M. Oberhelman (Eds.), <em>The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama</em> (pp. 183-198). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/8025
dc.legacy.articleid1147
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dc.rights<p>Posted with permission from the <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3649916.html">University of Chicago Press</a>.</p>
dc.source.beginpage183
dc.source.endpage198
dc.source.issue145
dc.source.journalDepartmental Papers (Classical Studies)
dc.source.journaltitleThe Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama
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dc.subject.otherArts and Humanities
dc.subject.otherClassics
dc.titleWomen in Groups: Aeschylus's Suppliants and the Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy
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