What the peploi conceal. Female garments in Euripides’ Hecuba

The word πέπλος (“peplos”), which typically names the tunic worn by women, isregistered a total of eleven times in Euripides’ Hecuba. Taking into account thebipartite structure of this tragedy and the significance of clothing in the AncientGreek world, this article intends to analyze the occurrences...

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Autor principal: Lanza, Joaquín
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Publicado: Asociación Argentina de Estudios Clásicos (AADEC) - Ediciones UNL 2024
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Sumario:The word πέπλος (“peplos”), which typically names the tunic worn by women, isregistered a total of eleven times in Euripides’ Hecuba. Taking into account thebipartite structure of this tragedy and the significance of clothing in the AncientGreek world, this article intends to analyze the occurrences of this term in itscontexts, with the hypothesis that the peploi conceal but at the same time revealthe nature of the female characters: Polyxena, the chorus of captive Trojan womenand Hecuba, as well as they allow the transformation of the last two in each part ofthe play.