Ergebnis für "The Women" in Antike, Klassik & Mittelalter

There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power. All of these stories were written by men, and none of them can be interpreted as affirmations or celebrations of women in power. They are instead misogynistic tales that aim to shore up masculine authority by exposing the consequences when women rather than men wield it.

Zachastuju mnogie istorii o ljubvi zakanchivajutsja svad'boj. A p'esa Karlo Gol'doni so svad'by nachinaetsja. Kekkina i Bepo sobirajutsja pozhenit'sja, no zlym jazykam nichego ne stoit razrushit' ih namerenija. Stoit tol'ko ukazat' zhenihu na bezrodnost' i raspushhennost' nevesty. A esli zhenih tak doverchiv i prislushivaetsja k spletnjam, to neveste stoit razobrat'sja v istinnosti ego chuvstv.

In The Trachinian Tragedy, better known as the Women of Trachis, the wife of Herakles, Deianeira, finds she has a rival in the house for her husband's affection. The consequences of her counteraction are incredible. In this faithful translation, F. L. Light attempts to write as good a play in English as the original in Greek. F. L. Light has also translated Antigone of Sophocles.