{"title":"To kalliston kleos: Cassandra’s Reformulation of Heroic Values in Euripides’ Trojan Women","authors":"Celsiana Warwick","doi":"10.1086/718676","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that Cassandra’s speeches in Euripides’ Trojan Women critique and revise the rhetoric of Athenian funeral oration by drawing upon the themes and tropes of lament. In making her seemingly paradoxical claim that the Trojans are more fortunate than the Greeks, Cassandra blends funeral oration’s valorization of glorious death with lament’s emphasis on the pain that war causes for women and other noncombatants. By synthesizing these two viewpoints, she formulates a new code of conduct for warriors that grants glory only in wars that do not damage the stability of the oikos.","PeriodicalId":46255,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","volume":"117 1","pages":"343 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718676","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article argues that Cassandra’s speeches in Euripides’ Trojan Women critique and revise the rhetoric of Athenian funeral oration by drawing upon the themes and tropes of lament. In making her seemingly paradoxical claim that the Trojans are more fortunate than the Greeks, Cassandra blends funeral oration’s valorization of glorious death with lament’s emphasis on the pain that war causes for women and other noncombatants. By synthesizing these two viewpoints, she formulates a new code of conduct for warriors that grants glory only in wars that do not damage the stability of the oikos.
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Classical Philology has been an internationally respected journal for the study of the life, languages, and thought of the Ancient Greek and Roman world since 1906. CP covers a broad range of topics from a variety of interpretative points of view. CP welcomes both longer articles and short notes or discussions that make a significant contribution to the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Any field of classical studies may be treated, separately or in relation to other disciplines, ancient or modern. In particular, we invite studies that illuminate aspects of the languages, literatures, history, art, philosophy, social life, and religion of ancient Greece and Rome. Innovative approaches and originality are encouraged as a necessary part of good scholarship.
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