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Literary responses | Sappho | Margaret Reynolds
in The Sappho Companion, 2001, sweeps with a broad net translations, portraits, ballets, operas, poems, plays, novels, songs and treatises. Gubar, Susan. “Multiple personality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xviii , No. 12, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Jewoman again discusses myth, particularly that of Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who kills his mother Clytemnestra. Upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War (as related in drama by Æschylus
and others), Clytemnestra murdered him because, before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | Here the quotation of Æschylus
' Hymn to Zeus by the character Max Lejour (modelled on the scholar Eduard Fraenkel
, whose famous Aeschylus seminar IM
had attended) focuses the book's argument that liberal-humanist optimism... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margiad Evans | ME
chose the name because the figure of the tragic classical prophetess was much in her mind, crying aloud in the garden in Aeschylus
's words: Once more thy heavy hand with ease hath ruined... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | Virginia read Aeschylus
, Homer
, Sophocles
, and Plato
, among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case
, who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over... |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | The first to respond was Mrs Isabel Thorne
, the next Miss Edith Pechey
. When two more women—Miss Matilda Chaplin
and Mrs Helen Evans
—expressed their intention to apply, SJB
proceeded to request matriculation... |
Education | May Sinclair | Here she extended her already very considerable reading in English literature and philosophy, and in the Greeks from Homer
and Æschylus
. She also studied modern languages and several branches of mathematics and science. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 24-5 |
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