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- Title
LA VIRILIDAD DE CLITEMNESTRA EN EL AGAMENÓN DE ESQUILO.
- Authors
ALMANDÓS MORA, LAURA
- Abstract
The thought and social practices of Athenians during the Classical period were hierarchized in favor of males, who were considered naturally superior and endowed with the capacity and right to rule the polis and the home. The article shows how Aeschylus' Agamemnon questions the naturalization of that superiority through the character of Clytemnestra, who acts, thinks, and speaks like a man, and shows that killing a family member, changing partners, and fighting for power were justified if Agamemnon did those things. Why were such actions condemned if Clytemnestra carried them out?
- Subjects
ARISTOTLE, 384-322 B.C.; NATURALIZATION; GENDER studies; MALES; FAMILIES; CHARACTER
- Publication
Ideas y Valores, 2020, Vol 69, Issue 173, p163
- ISSN
0120-0062
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15446/v69n173.80130