Affiliation:
1. Department of Humanities, York University, 4700 Keele Street, 262 Vanier College, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada Canada
Abstract
Abstract
The word δούλευμα, which appears only three times in extant Greek literature, is defined in all the authoritative dictionaries with the meaning of “slave” or “servitude”, but this lexical meaning is not well supported by the contexts in which the word appears. The word δούλευμα does not signify a person’s status as a slave or the duty of a slave to perform a service for its owner. Rather, δούλευμα has an extended or secondary meaning of a woman’s “baby doll” or “doll-like object” (in the same way that other polysemous words, such as κόρη, νύμφη, and γλήνη, can also mean “doll”, depending on the contexts in which these words are used). This proposed definition offers a new perspective on the three scenes in which the word appears in Greek tragedy.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,History,Language and Linguistics,Classics
Reference50 articles.
1. Euripides, Fabulae, II, ed. G. Murray, Oxford 1962 (1913).
2. Euripides, Fabulae, III, ed. G. Murray, Oxford 1963 (1913).
3. Euripides, Orestes, ed. M. L. West, Warminster 1987.
4. Euripides, Orestes, ed. C. W. Willink, Oxford 1986.
5. Euripides, Ion, ed. K. H. Lee, Warminster 1997.
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Δούλευμα;Philologus;2019-05-29