Co-Sponsor(s)
Duke Department of Theater Studies
Dr. Mary Hamil (MSU) and Dr. Gwendolyn Nally (UM-KC)
Thursday, October 2,
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Speaker(s): Dr. Mary Hamil (Mississippi State University) and Dr. Edith Gwendolyn Nally (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Hecuba: Ship of State, Prow of Life
This talk explores Hecuba’s matriarchal power in Euripides and charts her emergence as a paradigm of maternal-political power—a power of a kind which has gone without sufficient comment in classical studies despite standing in striking opposition to both ancient Greek and contemporary forms of patriarchy.
5pm Holsti-Anderson Room, Rubenstein Library 153
Reception to follow in Allen 103A
