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The Sexual Status of Aeschylus’ Cassandra
From its opening scene, Agamemnon builds toward the return of the king from Troy. Midway through the play he finally enters, and with him is a young woman. For an audience steeped in Archaic Greek poetry, the physical details identifying the female character as a prophetess--her scepter, sacred fillets, and costume--would suggest that before them was the beautiful Cassandra, youngest daughter of the Trojan king Priam, Agamemnon's war-prize, en route to her death in the palace of the Atreidae. In addition to a female character's age, ethnos, and social status or genealogy, a fifth-century Athenian audience was likely to have been alert to her sexual status. In the case of a young woman, this would mean asking whether she had yet to marry, which meant whether she was a virgin. Here, Debnar examines Cassandra's sexual status within Agamemnon and explores the implications of Cassandra's virginity for the understanding of her role in Agamemnon.
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Fifth‐Century Athenian History and Tragedy
This chapter contains sections titled:
Prologue: 431 BCE
Tragedy and History
Athens and the Sea
Aeschylus'
Empire and Democracy
Aeschylus'
War and Peace
Sophocles'
The Early Years of the Peloponnesian War
Euripides'
Pylos and the Peace
Euripides'
Recoveries and Reversals
Sophocles'
and Euripides'
Epilogue: 401 and Beyond
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The Unpersuasive Thebans (Thucydides 3.61-67)
Thucydides (3.61-67) characterizes the Thebans through the rhetorical ineptitude of their speech in the Plataean debate. Theban insensitivity to Spartan distrust of rhetoric, inadvertent denigration of the Spartans' reputation, and clumsy use of paraphrase make them appear worthy both of typical fifth-century Athenian contempt and of their general reputation for incompetence in speaking. / Dans le débat à Platées chez Thucydide (3.61-67), les Thébains sont charactérisés par leur inaptitude à la rhétorique. En effet ils y sont dignes du mépris qu'éprouvaient pour eux les Athéniens du Ve siècle et de la mauvaise opinion de leur talents d'orateurs que se faisait le monde grec. Le discours des Thébains à Platées le montre par leur inconscience de la méfiance des Spartiates à l'égard de la rhétorique, par leur rabaissement involontaire de la réputation des Lacédémoniens et par leur maladresse dans l'emploi de la paraphrase.
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