Misogyny in Euripides’ biographical tradition
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https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v8i2.38818Keywords:
ancient biography, ancient lives, Euripides, misogyny, AristophanesAbstract
There are more ancient biographical texts on Euripides extant to this day than on any other tragic poet of Classical Greece. Throughout this material, it is remarkable how the poet is persistently characterized as a misogynist (μισογύνης). The word appears in two of the most important biographical texts on Euripides (the anonymous Life attached to the medieval manuscripts of his works and the entry in the Suda), and his “aversion towards women” is directly or indirectly alluded in all the Lives that survived to this day. This article presents these occurrences and analyses them in the light of Aristophanes’ comedy. Finally, it proposes an articulation between the paradoxical receptions of the poet’s work in Antiquity and in modernity, when the image of a “feminist” Euripides will be constructed.
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