Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 6 December 2011
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The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been marginalized and silenced in Athenian society: women, foreigners, and the enslaved.
The Trojan Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 6 December 2011
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The Trojan Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the relatively few Greek tragedies that regularly finds its way to the stage. Here the power of Euripides' theatrical and moral imagination speaks clearly across the twenty-five centuries that separate our world from his.
Super Freedom: Create a Worry-Free Financial Future in 6 Steps
Super Freedom is just that? a guide for women to super. This guide has a strong, aspirational focus on whatsuperannuation can provide for women, regardless of their marital circumstances, age or even their current superannuation balances. For women it's not so much about the actual amount of super they have, but what they cando with it, eg travel, shop, live.
Special Assignments by Boris AkuninSpecial Assignments by Boris Akunin
A Jack of Spades and his fragrant accomplice; an eager young deputy and a fugitive countess; a game of cat and mouse and a series of savage murders: the dashing, inimitable Erast Fandorin finds himself juggling them all . . . He faces two very different adversaries. The first is a wickedly mischievous swindler and master of disguise. The other is a brutal serial killer - nicknamed The Decorator - who may have more in common with London's Jack the Ripper than just a taste for women of easy virtue. With twists and turns around every corner, Fandorin's powers of detection are tested to the limit.
