This paper investigates the treatment of the concept of gratitude that binds a baby who has been breastfed to his mother in Aeschylus’ Choephori, where Clytaemestra and the nurse Cilissa dispute the motherhood of Orestes, with both claiming the merit of having breastfed him; through reference to the character of Hypsipyle in Euripides’ homonymous play and in Statius’ Thebaid, the A. then analyses the function of breastfeeding in the definition of the role of the substitute mother.
Mothers and nurses in Aeschylus’ Choephori and Euripides’ Hypsipyle
Sabina Castellaneta
2019-01-01
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This paper investigates the treatment of the concept of gratitude that binds a baby who has been breastfed to his mother in Aeschylus’ Choephori, where Clytaemestra and the nurse Cilissa dispute the motherhood of Orestes, with both claiming the merit of having breastfed him; through reference to the character of Hypsipyle in Euripides’ homonymous play and in Statius’ Thebaid, the A. then analyses the function of breastfeeding in the definition of the role of the substitute mother.File in questo prodotto:
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