Helen on the Edge: the Movement of Liminal Women and its Consequences in Early Greek Myth – Aleks Michalewicz

The title of this paper takes as its cue Blondell et al’s Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides, [1] which argues in its introduction that “[w]omen in tragedy often disrupt ‘normal’ life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly, tell lies, cause public unrest, violate custom, defy orders, even kill.” (Blondell, … Continue reading Helen on the Edge: the Movement of Liminal Women and its Consequences in Early Greek Myth – Aleks Michalewicz