Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority...
Karydas, Helen Pournara![Eurykleia and Her Successors: Female Figures of Authority in Greek Poetics](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/196/19618483/CHSBZCOP0319618483.jpg)
In Greek literature from Homer to Euripides, the Nurse is a central figure of authority, but until now no one has attempted a systematic, comprehensive study of her. Examining Nurse figures in ancient Greek epic and drama, Helen Pournara Karydas focuses on the the verbal manifestations of the Nurse's authority-advice, approval, disapproval, directions and orders. She reveals its roots in the models of female hierarchy in early choral lyric per...