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Aeschylus 525 b.c.-456 b.c.: Critical Essay by Anthony J. Podlecki

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SOURCE: "Aeschylus' Women," in Helios, n.s. Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring, 1983, pp. 23-47.

In this essay, Podlecki examines Aeschylus's presentation of women in his plays, in a effort to "refute any charge of male chauvinism against the dramatist. " Aeschylus's female characters, he insists, "are handled in a life-like and convincing way, with sensitivity and understanding. "

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