Courting the Erinyes: Persuasion, Sacrifice, and Seduction in Aeschylus's "Eumenides"
Courting the Erinyes: Persuasion, Sacrifice, and Seduction in Aeschylus's "Eumenides"
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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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At the end of the Eumenides, Athena draws on the discourses of propitiatory sacrifice and amatory persuasion in order to successfully persuade the Erinyes to give up their wrath and accept cult honors in Athens. Athena thus founds the cult of the Semnai with an act of rhetorical propitiation and, through the erotic element of her persuasive speech,...
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Courting the Erinyes: Persuasion, Sacrifice, and Seduction in Aeschylus's "Eumenides"
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1419408549
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1419408549
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0360-5949,1533-0699,2575-7180
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1533-0699,2575-7199
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10.1353/apa.2013.0002
