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Discuss the representation of women in any of the tragedies (at least two) you have read so far. For example, (and these are just suggestions): what are the common features of these ancient portrayals of women? Are women portrayed as essentially "different" from men (physically, socially, mentally)? Do women have power, and where can/does it lie? Should one draw distinctions between mortal and immortal women, or living and dead women, or noble and slave women, or married and unmarried women? What (if anything) might these representations of women tell us about the society of men that produced them? One of the great ironies of Greek tragedy is that it saturated with female characters when actual Athenian women were consigned to the private sphere of the home. The pervasive presence of women in the public domain leads one to question how far these tragedies draw upon female stereotypes in their representation of...

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