Journal article
To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’ Trojan Women
Classical philology, Vol.117(2), pp.343-363
04/01/2022
DOI: 10.1086/718676
Abstract
This article argues that Cassandra’s speeches in Euripides’ Trojan Women critique and revise the rhetoric of Athenian funeral oration by drawing upon the themes and tropes of lament. In making her seemingly paradoxical claim that the Trojans are more fortunate than the Greeks, Cassandra blends funeral oration’s valorization of glorious death with lament’s emphasis on the pain that war causes for women and other noncombatants. By synthesizing these two viewpoints, she formulates a new code of conduct for warriors that grants glory only in wars that do not damage the stability of the oikos.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’ Trojan Women
- Creators
- Celsiana Warwick - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Classical philology, Vol.117(2), pp.343-363
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- DOI
- 10.1086/718676
- ISSN
- 0009-837X
- eISSN
- 1546-072X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Classics
- Record Identifier
- 9984397231502771
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