It takes the average reader 7 hours and 10 minutes to read Female Acts in Greek Tragedy by Helene P. Foley
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Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and...
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy by Helene P. Foley is 424 pages long, and a total of 107,696 words.
This makes it 143% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 48 minutes to read Female Acts in Greek Tragedy aloud.
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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