Abstract
A paradox lies at the heart of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle’s analyses of the best type of hero in a tragedy as outlined in his Poetics, his account of women as less able to deliberate than men in his Politics Book 1, and the actual moral stature of women in the surviving tragedies. This illustrated lecture examines the tensions between his remarks about male-female relationships in his ethical and political works and his admiration for Greek tragedy, with special reference to Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, Sophocles’s Antigone, and Euripides’s Medea.
Recommended Citation
Hall, Edith
(2023)
"Aristotle, Women, and Greek Tragedy,"
Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture: Vol. 27:
No.
2, Article 10.
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol27/iss2/10
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