Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides

Autores
Kousoulini, Vasiliki
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
Estado
versión publicada
Descripción
In ancient Greek tragedy, the physical pain of male bodies is often depicted. Nonetheless, there are only a few examples of female bodies in pain. Tragic heroines rarely or never refer to their somatic anguish. In the Euripidean corpus, this pain is narrated by male and female Messengers. These Messengers in Alcestis, Medea, and Hecuba, describe the gestures and the miens of the heroines in pain with great detail. Special attention is paid to the skin of these women. This paper examines the gestures of these suffering heroines as responses to physical sources of pain, such as torment by the accumulation of excessive fluids under the skin, the eating of skin and flesh by poison, and the piercing of the skin by sharp objects.
Fil: Kousoulini, Vasiliki. University of Patras, Greece.
Fuente
Synthesis, 31(1-2), e144. (2024)
ISSN 1851-779X
Materia
Lingüística
Eurípides
Dolor
Mujeres
Encarnación
Gestos
Euripides
Pain
Women
Embodiment
Gestures
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
Condiciones de uso
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Memoria Académica (UNLP-FAHCE)
Institución
Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
title Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
spellingShingle Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
Kousoulini, Vasiliki
Lingüística
Eurípides
Dolor
Mujeres
Encarnación
Gestos
Euripides
Pain
Women
Embodiment
Gestures
title_short Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
title_full Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
title_fullStr Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
title_full_unstemmed Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
title_sort Suffering Women and their Skin(s): Representations of Female Bodies in Pain in Euripides
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Kousoulini, Vasiliki
author Kousoulini, Vasiliki
author_facet Kousoulini, Vasiliki
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Lingüística
Eurípides
Dolor
Mujeres
Encarnación
Gestos
Euripides
Pain
Women
Embodiment
Gestures
topic Lingüística
Eurípides
Dolor
Mujeres
Encarnación
Gestos
Euripides
Pain
Women
Embodiment
Gestures
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv In ancient Greek tragedy, the physical pain of male bodies is often depicted. Nonetheless, there are only a few examples of female bodies in pain. Tragic heroines rarely or never refer to their somatic anguish. In the Euripidean corpus, this pain is narrated by male and female Messengers. These Messengers in Alcestis, Medea, and Hecuba, describe the gestures and the miens of the heroines in pain with great detail. Special attention is paid to the skin of these women. This paper examines the gestures of these suffering heroines as responses to physical sources of pain, such as torment by the accumulation of excessive fluids under the skin, the eating of skin and flesh by poison, and the piercing of the skin by sharp objects.
Fil: Kousoulini, Vasiliki. University of Patras, Greece.
description In ancient Greek tragedy, the physical pain of male bodies is often depicted. Nonetheless, there are only a few examples of female bodies in pain. Tragic heroines rarely or never refer to their somatic anguish. In the Euripidean corpus, this pain is narrated by male and female Messengers. These Messengers in Alcestis, Medea, and Hecuba, describe the gestures and the miens of the heroines in pain with great detail. Special attention is paid to the skin of these women. This paper examines the gestures of these suffering heroines as responses to physical sources of pain, such as torment by the accumulation of excessive fluids under the skin, the eating of skin and flesh by poison, and the piercing of the skin by sharp objects.
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