Women and Humor in Classical Greece

ISBN-13: 9780521822534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 282 str.

Maine) Laurie O'Higgins (Bates College

Opis

Laurie O'Higgins examines the role of women as producers of joking speech, especially within cults of Demeter. She considers the speech from its mythical origins in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, through the reactive iambic tradition and into old comedy. Sometimes known as aischrologia, this speech had considerable weight and vitality within its cultic context. It also influenced literary traditions, notably iambic and Attic old comedy traditionally regarded as entirely male.

Recenzje

'… bold and challenging … bound to stimulate controversy.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Cultic obscenity in Greece, especially Attica; 2. Iambe and the Hymn to Demeter; 3. Iambic's relationship with the female; 4. Women's iambic voices; 5. Comedy and women; 6. Women at centre stage; Notes; Bibliography; Index.