https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/86 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/82 Menander’s Perikeiromene centers on a haircut forcibly imposed on a free woman by her lover, a recently demobilized soldier. This paper interprets the haircut against evidence of domestic violence in ancient Greece, tragic models of self-sacrificing virgins, and contemporary studies of intimate partner violence. Glykera’s loyalty to her natal home shows an internalization of patriarchal values, in the tragic tradition. Although Polemon shows striking similarities with modern perpetrators and victim disfigurement is common, the actual act of cutting the victim’s hair is not and he shows some elements of the kind of abuser who can change. mar., 14 juin 2022 08:24:28 +0200 mar., 17 oct. 2023 14:42:47 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/82 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1104 This essay looks at rape in Greek tragedy through the lens of several moments of feminist theorizing and activism about rape. Starting with a study of second and third wave feminist approaches, it analyzes those plays that seem closest to modern ideas of rape (non‑consensual sexual contact) – Aeschylus ‘Suppliants, Euripides’ Ion and Hippolytos, as well as the Trojan War plays, Trojan Women and Andromache. It shows that in each case there is ambiguity between rape and marriage. In the end, it asks the question of how should we read and teach these texts? The ambiguous discourse supports the notion that the plays, like epic, are part of the normalization of rape (that is, establishing a rape culture), but if read with care, we can avoid reproducing that effect for ourselves and our students. jeu., 16 juin 2022 11:20:16 +0200 jeu., 12 oct. 2023 15:05:05 +0200 https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1104