Demanding Witness: Women and the Trauma of Homecoming in Greek Tragedy

by Erika L. Weiberg

Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Women of Trachis, and Euripides' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern trauma concepts alongside historical and literary analyses of these plays, Erika L. Weiberg examines how and why female characters' expressions of psychological pain are hotly contested, silenced, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197747329
• ISBN13: 9780197747322
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"